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Re:This is How Wrong Kurzweil Is by zby on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @11:24AM (#5097827)
You don't need to understand something to build it. After all natural selection built our minds with just trial and error and no design at all.
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Re:This is How Wrong Kurzweil Is by eterpstra on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @11:35AM (#5097898)
Exactly. I could build a program to play checkers, and have it beat me at checkers every time I play it.
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Re:This is How Wrong Kurzweil Is by snowwrestler on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @12:43PM (#5098388)
Great, now build a program to play Go, and have it win every time.
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Re:This is How Wrong Kurzweil Is by RyanMcGreal on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @11:31AM (#5097877)
Yes, but it took a couple billion years for natural selection to do it, and it's a Texas sharpshooter fallacy to draw a target around a currently observed humanity that could have turned out much differently. Us hitting that same target in decades rather than millennia is a staggeringly different exercise.
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Re:This is How Wrong Kurzweil Is by tompko on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @11:40AM (#5097926)
Except that we're rapidly becoming better shots, and we're aiming at a target that's already been drawn.
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