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Re:Scientists discover potentially habitable planets by Retra on Monday May 02, 2016 @10:48PM (#11617481)
Just because you can bootstrap a computer to run arbitrary programs doesn't mean you're significantly closer to general AI.

Similarly, it's easy to argue that there will be incremental improvements in space technology, but it's very hard to argue that they will snowball into large-scale luxury platforms that can sustain human life indefinitely.

Re:Scientists discover potentially habitable planets by simonh on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @04:29AM (#11618863)
On the contrary it's very easy to argue it. All you have to do is type some words on a keyboard. Actually doing it however...