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Started by P3nT4gR4m, March 13, 2014, 11:00:09 PM

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#15
March 25, 2014, 09:25:21 PM
Quote from: a somewhat wiser Joe. on March 25, 2014, 08:40:52 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on March 20, 2014, 09:28:22 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHIocNOHd7A

Not rebooting life itself. Synthesising it. A starting point for a new phase of evolution by intelligent design. Natural selection is over. We are driving it from this point forward.

The way I see it, right now, evolution is still crawling onward at evolution speed, whilst we get up to speed with the Dev Kit documentation. This might take decades, centuries or maybe even millennia (yeah, right) but I'm confident we'll crack it a long time before nature creates a new creature. Even in the interim we're using life's nano-robotics to build stuff we want, and defeat natural efforts to do stuff we don't want. Selection is on our terms now.

This could be the coolest way to doom us all. Patented, copyrighted, synthetic lifeforms. That may take offence at their servitude one day. Gosh where have I heard a story like that before?

History suggests it will doom us all but it'll save us all from the same doom and bring a bunch of cool new shit in it's wake.

I'm up to my arse in Brexit Numpties, but I want more.  Target-rich environments are the new sexy.
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#16
March 25, 2014, 11:46:00 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on March 25, 2014, 09:25:21 PM
Quote from: a somewhat wiser Joe. on March 25, 2014, 08:40:52 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on March 20, 2014, 09:28:22 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHIocNOHd7A

Not rebooting life itself. Synthesising it. A starting point for a new phase of evolution by intelligent design. Natural selection is over. We are driving it from this point forward.

The way I see it, right now, evolution is still crawling onward at evolution speed, whilst we get up to speed with the Dev Kit documentation. This might take decades, centuries or maybe even millennia (yeah, right) but I'm confident we'll crack it a long time before nature creates a new creature. Even in the interim we're using life's nano-robotics to build stuff we want, and defeat natural efforts to do stuff we don't want. Selection is on our terms now.

This could be the coolest way to doom us all. Patented, copyrighted, synthetic lifeforms. That may take offence at their servitude one day. Gosh where have I heard a story like that before?

History suggests it will doom us all but it'll save us all from the same doom and bring a bunch of cool new shit in it's wake.

Hm. I agree. Hell just 'cuz you be doomed ain't no reason to stop having fun. The cool new shit is gonna be major league too. I want to be able to enjoy it. We could be, as you neatly stated in another thread, about to crack the machine code and start scripting biology systems. To me even the worst that could come of this is an acceptable risk for the chance to see the possible benefits. Either or both may be seen in my own lifetime.

That I got to be a being in such an incredible time gives me a hollow shivery  :horrormirth:. I mean I deserve none of it, yet here I am living in the midst of the greatest change in history so far.  :eek: Now what? Guess we shall see eh?
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#17
March 25, 2014, 11:48:44 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on March 20, 2014, 09:28:22 PM
A starting point for a new phase of evolution by intelligent design.

We can't even make cars that work properly.

This is gonna be HILARIOUS!
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#18
March 26, 2014, 01:44:20 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 25, 2014, 11:48:44 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on March 20, 2014, 09:28:22 PM
A starting point for a new phase of evolution by intelligent design.

We can't even make cars that work properly.

This is gonna be HILARIOUS!
Yes we can, there's just more money in making cars that break down often. In addition new parts are constantly added to existing perfectly fine cars giving them new ways to break or be hacked.
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