I imagine there have been quite a few mutations over the lifetime of our species that would have increased infant brain size and intelligence, only to be eliminated by killing both the baby and the mother. Given that such a child would themselves be more likely to have such children of their own a generation later,…

Why does this require unanimous approval?

lol well, as if there were any doubt, I am definitely going to see it now.

What did you have them as?

That’s my thought as well. There have been some crazy advances lately. Heck, human civilization is in a completely different era now.

Maybe I’m late to the party, but the idea of a president elect openly requiring proof of negation terrifies me.

IIRC, electrons in a computer travel at roughly 80% of c. Merely upgrading to photons would allow information to propagate that much faster. Going FTL would yield obvious increases in performance just from sheer information speeds. That said, there’s a lot more to a computer’s speed than just clock cycles on the CPU.…

Interesting, but I don’t think so. That sounds more like it is seeking help from humans (which it is well established that dogs will do when they cannot otherwise achieve a goal) or perhaps in the past when it was hurt, you forced it to let you help it and now it allows you to because it knows you can relieve paw…

That’s an interesting question. Do animals other than humans understand intent? Dolphins and chimps might, but given that the natural human tendency upon receiving misfortune on account of another human seems to be to assume malevolence rather than incompetence, I doubt dogs could understand it. Determining intent…

Counter: that’s civilization, the most beautiful creation of mankind.

It’s really cool, getting 90% of my drawings right. Then it goes and does something like thinking a tornado is a microwave.

The issue is that a sufficiently intelligent being could trick the researchers into thinking it’s safe so they release it.

I wouldn’t be too concerned with China getting ahead in medicine. American drug companies have the resources to catch up. Honestly, this could help by reducing the cost of health care.

Not quite. If it were abolished, it would increase the value of cities a bit, but mainly it would turn suburbs into the primary battleground areas. More importantly, politicians would have to be concerned with how EVERYONE votes, not just those in swing states so we’d see less preferential treatment of them.

Actually, he can. His memory is excellent, but he’s terrible about discarding garbage information.

1. Agreed. That Bannon is now in the west wing scares me.

Thank you so much for jumping to conclusions about people you don’t know.

A few things to keep in perspective:

Well, fuck.

Except that any portion of the future that has yet to be witnessed is still mutable. If they’ve seen us helping them in the future, that part is locked in or you’re talking about a causality violation and you’ve landed in a paradox. Technically, all roads from the moment of the first prophecy, must lead to us…