[clue-talk] The Coming Storm? Nano/AI/Skynet

[Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 02:22:56AM -0700, Timothy Klein wrote the following:
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> Artificial life is a great topic.  I read _The Age of Spiritual  
> Machines_, though, and can't recommend it.
> 
> One interesting thing in the field of cellular automata are Stephen  
> Wolfram's ideas (the guy that wrote Mathematica).  He is of the opinion  
> that cellular automata are how we should be representing the universe,  
> rather than differential equations.  I don't know about all of that,  
> but he wrote a 1,000 page book on the subject called _A New Kind of  
> Science_. (Me, I love differential equations, I'd be bummed if  
> something supplanted them as our primary model-building tool).
> 
> There are also several packages you can get for *nix to do your own  
> artificial life simulations.
> 
> And on a tangentially related note, BoingBoing just posted a link about  
> researchers that are going to be creating mice with brains constructed  
> of human brain cells.
> 
> http://www.boingboing.net/2005/03/08/mice_with_human_brai.html

On a somewhat related note:

Our northern neighbors have scientists claiming to be able to give us 1,000
yr lifepsans in 25-50 yrs.
<http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2005/02/16/aging050216.html>

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