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Joe Woodbury wrote: why waste the bandwidth sharing useless information?
Exactly... just because it is possible it doesn't mean that it is needed 
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Joe Woodbury wrote: why waste the bandwidth sharing useless information?
... Unless it's a coffee machine, of course. The main function of coffee machines is to provide locations for sharing useless information.
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At this week’s “Love and Sex with Robots” conference at Goldsmith University in London, David Levy, author of a book on human-robot love, predicted that human-robot marriages would be legal by 2050. And the first human-robot divorce by 2051
Anyone know how to unstick after a painful eyeroll?
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I think the real news is that there's a "Love and Sex with Robots" conference...
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With the term "experts" being used loosely
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He wrote a book on it - that makes him an instant expert, no? 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Anyone know how to unstick after a painful eyeroll?
I'm sure the manufacturers will provide of list of compatible jells that are water soluble; which can be used on a daily basis.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: And the first human-robot divorce by 2051
You're an optimist then? 
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Legal by 2050, compulsory by 2051
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Do that enough and it will stay that way.
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Yet more proof that "x" is the unknown quantity, and a "spurt" is a drip under pressure.
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Cyanogen Inc., which produced a version of the Android mobile operating system that competed with Google’s, has announced it will cease services and updates for the software it claimed was installed on more than 50 million devices. Apparently the ant can't move that rubber tree plant
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One of the last hold-outs finally sets retirement date for senior citizen XP. Bad news about your grandmother's computer
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Dang, I guess it is finally time to upgrade to Windows 7 from Vista.Quote: InstallDate : 11/17/2009 10:10:54 PM
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I use weven. Can you talk them into scrapping support there, too?
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The magazine said the machines didn’t deliver the promised battery life. "But there is no joy in Mudville—mighty Casey has struck out."
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After decades of fruitless scanning the skies for alien messages, scientists say it's time to try a basic rule of etiquette: Say "hello" first. "Sup, sup, suppertime!"
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Please let them avoid emojis and caps lock.
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They can start with Giese 710, since it will be in the vicinity of the solar system in a million years.
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Are they sending a Message In A Bottle?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I don't know what is worst... the idea of being alone in the universe or discovering that we are not...
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The blog wait but why had a great article on fermis paradox. Made me think that we should be really careful with how we proceed as a species.
But to ease my mind I came up with my own answer to it. Any sufficiently advanced species will develop AIs that's either take over or blurs the line between biological intelligence and artificial.
As they develop and explore they will inevitably come to the conclusion that any other advanced species will go down the same route and come to the same conclusions as they and that as a civilization they only need to expand enough that they wont go extinct by sudden events as supernova or asteroid collisions etc. Because any sufficiently advanced spices will realise that they are "the same" in this regard they don't need to colonise that galaxy in order to protect from potential other civilizations and thus they don't.
Not the most promising in itself because it's also a little sad because it also implies that there isn't anything to do at that point for a civilization other than just existing.
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Interesting point of view... but the problem is... if they really are how you say so "similar" to us...
what happened with the aborigens in all places where the "civilized" man has come? America, South-America, Australia... They were almost destroyed.
What happens if the "new civilization" desperately needs resources that can be found here?
And if they even are pacific as you say, then the probability that we screw the situation up is so high...
sad but for now (an probably for a big while) we (as species) are such dumb... We fear what we don't understand, we hate what we fear and we try to destroy what we hate.
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I think if two civilizations such as ours where to be close to each other (relatively) in distance then it would be a potential problem but if the distance is great enough between them then when they both have technology to expand outside the their solar system they will quickly reach the pacifist point.
I have no way to really back up my thoughts but I do think its one possible scenario that at least would explain why our galaxy seemingly isn't colonized by one single dominant civilization yet.
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Member 11683251 wrote: why our galaxy seemingly isn't colonized by one single dominant civilization yet.
that we know about yet
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