[Ray Kurzweil] seems to be saying that once a computer can cycle quickly enough, it will stop being an adding machine and become a sentient being. Does Kurzweil also believe that once a knitting machine makes enough mittens, it will turn into his grandmother?
--Peter K. Sampson
Economics, Monsters, Immortal Souls, and the Cosmic Area Rug
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Well, I finished the Milton Friedman biography, so I've completed this
year's continuing education in economics. Bottom line? And what does it
have to do...
7 hours ago
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Might already be the case.
Lots of folks want being human beings to be somehow special, because the alternative is not special at all.
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