Forty years is a long time. There might be enough small breakthroughs, like cloned organs or cell repair, during that time to keep you running until the real cure hits the market.

Thing about it is though, you don't normally design learning, self-aware, feedback looped neural network AI in the same way you would, for example, an obstacle avoiding rover, or a trajectory correcting satellite. The former is based on heuristics and massive amounts of potential redundancy while the latter is more…

That analogy would only work if your body was somehow being remade into a hologram, not just copied and then tossed.

Well when you say "X is not bad, it is natural", I kind of assume you're trying to show some kind of contrast. My apologies.

It always amazes me how people on the internet of all places can still use the word "natural" as synonymous with "good"

Well, would you argue that dying is a bad thing? Would you say it's a bad thing if you died right now?

Ship of Theseus!

Yeah it did kind of blow up into a much bigger deal than I first intended. I tend to ramble.

Well if a self-improving, hard AI bent on world domination and human extinction started coming up with far more advanced tech than we were ever capable of, we'd probably all be dead within a week from airborn mega AIDS rather than robot soldiers

He actually does address UAVs, rocketry and military robots.

How often and in what situations does it use this mesh method? Wouldn't it be more computationally power efficient and safer to wait 28 minutes and plot a manual course whenever it encounters an obstacle? Or is it just for smaller rocks and things?

Indeed it is a dissuasion from sharing your opinion, and I did mean it when I said I don't want to tell you what to think. But remarking on the attractiveness of women doing things on the internet unrelated to their looks is a pretty big problem right now, and has been for some time. Making people uncomfortable in…

She-Venom?

I don't want to tell you what to think, but it's the kind of discussion that could dissuade people from doing cool photo sets like this in the future. Like, it makes it harder to put yourself out there like that if you know people are going to be judging you for your looks and not the project

If it's a cool idea and well executed, why start a thread on how you don't find her attractive? >_>

Brian Slade makes his big comeback debut, but he hasn't aged a day since 1998. Because he's a vampire :O

You'll see. SpaceX's ultimate goal is a hidden capitalist utopia on the moon. Branson just needs to see his empire burn at the hands of the socialist parasites before he leaves.

I was just joking, really. I love running and jogging and swimming, and I did use to wreck my knees something fierce when I didn't know what I was doing. Like every other exercise you have to do it right if you're going to be doing it regularly.

I think you would appreciate this wiki article on a thing called qualia

You know what, I think it's just because we don't have the answers (yet?) that you disagree with my use of the word "why". If I said, "Why do people have a brain?" You might say, "Because it is there to control the body".