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Originally Posted by dlockhart
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As a small alternative perspective:
1) San Fransisco wasn't built on the gold found in the hills.
It was built on the trains, saloons, and brothels.
And the multitude of disposable hopefuls.
2) Denver was built on people finally crossing the great plains through the hazards of injun territory and cold wind to witness the great mountains in front of them.
"Congratulations. Y'all just got through the easy part. You are halfway there."
But for this new A.I. I'm not quite so sure.
-Look at the Otto cycle. Almost every bandaid has been thrown at it. I've thought of a few myself. So have people a hundred years ago.
-Look at Hollywood movies. They take the same old routine, randomly pick a word from the dictionary, and make a 'new' story line' based on it.
The Industrial Revolution was perhaps the second greatest human achievement, progressing to our modern Electronic Age with all the machines and toys to make life easier. Easy times make for weaker men. And it feels like we today don't match up to the philosophical deep thinkers of the past. The ones who carefully used water clocks, sunlight, sticks, and mathematics to prove the earth was round and the heavenly bodies moved with purpose.
A.I. can all do the above in a few minutes. And it can dig ditches better.