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Re:A Visiting Star Jostled Our Solar System 70,000 Years Ago by pstuart on Thursday March 22, 2018 @12:09PM (#16649852)
I would suggest that any contempt of early superstitious ideas has to do with the fact that many live on today.
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Re:A Visiting Star Jostled Our Solar System 70,000 Years Ago by UrukParthian on Thursday March 22, 2018 @12:36PM (#16650205)
People work with the best hardware and software they can. And for a lot of people, both components are shit beyond coexisting with other members of a "tribe". A lot of people absolutely suck at abstract thought, although "suck" is a relative term.

If AI flourishes, it'll consider even the smartest human as a hillbilly swamp creature, a mockery of the possibilities of intelligence.

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