Comment by bradleykingz
2 years ago
The way I see it, this is simply a repetition of history.
El dorado, the fountain of youth, turning dirt to gold, the holy grail and now... superintelligence.
2 years ago
The way I see it, this is simply a repetition of history.
El dorado, the fountain of youth, turning dirt to gold, the holy grail and now... superintelligence.
Human flight, resurrection (cardiopulmonary resuscitation machines), doubling human lifespans, instantaneous long distance communication, all of these things are simply pipe dreams.
Setting foot on the moon, splitting the atom and transmuting elements, curing incurable diseases like genetic blindness and spinal atrophy...
> doubling human lifespans
This is partly a statistical effect of greatly reducing infant mortality (which used to be as bad as 50%) but even that is mind-blowing.
> resurrection (cardiopulmonary resuscitation machines)
Get back to me when that can ressurect me after I've been dead for a week or so.
We have people walking around for weeks with no heartbeat.
They're tied to a machine, sure, but that machine itself is a miracle compared to any foundational religious textbook including those as recent as Doreen Valiente and Gerald Gardner with Wicca.
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