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In Reply to: Artifice + Intelligence posted by late on July 14, 2001 at 22:24:00:
The best science fiction has the most truth in it, they used to say. One aspect of A.I. that has been totally overlooked is the premise for the opening sequence - the submerged NYC scene. We are numb perhaps to predictions of doom and gloom, and downplay the global warming warnings of the "left-wingers" - I suppose we are comfortable in the thought that science/government will save us from disaster, but the catastrophic effects of global warming might be more real than we imagine. See article in Wash Post today (link below), maybe there is more going on that meets the eye WRT global warming. Maybe there is more going on in A.I. than meets the eye as well.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4748-2001Jul16.html
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with the rate that we're going, i think that humans will do something stupid (make sure Bush doesn't push the wrong button accidentally), or outconsume this planet before any significant inventions happen, such as robots of this caliber.
"Out of Oil" (1970s)
"Nuclear winter" (1980s)
"Y2k" (1990s)
"Global Warming" (2000s)See a pattern here?
Tell me this, Geoff: If scientists' ability to predict now whether next winter in a particular region of the US will be cooler than average, warmer than average or just average is a little better than a coin toss (i.e. 50% chance of being correct) -- which it is -- how can these same scientists do any better at predicting the global climate 10 years from now?
That all this stuff makes great news copy and great movies does not mean it's a sound basis for spending billions of dollars and disrupting or dislocating the lives of 100s of thousands of people.
I do agree that its bad public policy to subsidize (through flood insurance) the construction of $1+ million vacation homes on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. But that's because of hurricanes, not because I think the whole place is going to be under 20 feet of water.
guess we should take this Outside, huh, since it's kinda off-topic.
To me it reads like anti-American claptrap.clark
Not quite sure what you are driving at...if you think the Post is anti-Bush or anti-Republican historically are might be right, not clear that's the case with current admin., (yet). People used to say that those who said we need to get rid of the smog and clean up the air were anti-American or commies, at least anti-corporate America, as I recall. DC had an absolutely horrendous pollution problem when I was living here in early 70s, which I experienced first hand, so I suppose I sympathize with the anti-smog folks.
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