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[_] [?] Anonymous 05/30/09(Sat)22:35 No.

>> [_] Anonymous 05/30/09(Sat)22:49 No.

  The problem with this idea is that it constitutes human devolution. If we start using less of our
  physical and mental abilities due to technology, they begin to deteriorate.
  A study was done a long time ago on astronauts who spent extended amounts of time in space. They
  found that their bones had become weakened and were brittle. It was found that because there was
  no gravitational strain on their bones, their bones began to dissolve. Our minds are no different.
  If we totally rely on computers to do everything for us, our minds will slowly deteriorate into
  mush.

>> [_] Anonymous 05/30/09(Sat)23:04 No.

  "Logical reasoning... is entirely a technical process"

  Except it's not, dumbass, there's a little thing called inductive reasoning that has been making
  fools out of AI programmers trying to pass the Turing test ever since a sci-fi writer first
  mumbled the word "robot".

  The moron narrating this nonsense just breezes over the problem by claiming "new technological
  fields" are going to solve this. Then he goes right into the same idiocy mankind has been trying
  since the Chinese came up with it, and failed at it, in 7 BC: totalitarian centrally planned
  economies.

  The only difference is they want to DELEGATE this planning to computers. Assuming the humans can
  even define the parameters correctly, code the software correctly, and eliminate all logic
  problems and edge cases. (Which is impossible, as you'd know if you are a programmer of any kind.)

>> [_] Anonymous 05/30/09(Sat)23:08 No.

  Oops, slight typo in >>992211 should be 7th *century* BC, not 7 BC. Quoting Albert Nock from 1932:

  "I have been thinking of how old some of our brand-new economic nostrums really are.
  Price-regulation by State authority (through State purchase, like our Farm Board) was tried in
  China about 350 b.c. It did not work. It was tried again, with State distribution, in the first
  century a.d., and it did not work. Private trading was suppressed in the second century b.c., and
  regional planning was tried a little later. They did not work; the costs were too high. In the
  eleventh century a.d., a plan like the R.F.C. [Reconstruction Finance Corporation] was tried, but
  again cost too much. State monopolies are very old; there were two in China in the seventh
  century b.c. I suppose there is not a single item on the modern politician’s agenda that was not
  tried and found wanting ages ago."