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Re:Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 17 - Deep Thought by seiji on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @09:31AM (#4068539)
Singularitards tend to forget "size of brain" isn't related to "usefulness of brain." We don't have superintelligent elephants and whales running around.

Brains are slow, dumb things. They are just have freaky connectivity.

On a related note, it's hilarious modern GPUs aren't classified as weapons.

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Re:Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 17 - Deep Thought by Estragon on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @11:57AM (#4069161)
How do you weaponize a GPU?
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Re:Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 17 - Deep Thought by inportb on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @03:37PM (#4070410)
You could use it for cryptography or cryptanalysis, for example.
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