One of Greg Egan's short stories has skin-darkening common as a defense against skin cancer caused by a worsening atmospheric blockage of UV rays. It puts the white supremacists in a crisis, lol.

And AI, it may never be capable of doing more than it is doing now.

Maybe. But I for sure know it's been a hella-long time since the human species had to compete with intelligence comparable to its own; and never against intelligence greater than its own. Let's ask the Neandertals their advice.

Since they have technology to warp spacetime to throw chunks of it across the universe, I'm thinking a tractor beam is a form of spacetime warping that scrunches up the spacetime between the ships. So the tractored object doesn't pop back to the original distance once the beam is turn off, they must have a way of smoothing the folds out 'under' the ship.

WTF does an Adjusted Gross Income have to do with any of this?
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The biggest obstacle to research and advancement is that nobody can come up with the 'killer app' commercial purpose for which a fake person is actually needed. *PARTS* of people are far more commercially useful, such as robot arms assembling cars and robot Broca's Areas writing term papers.

But a whole entire fake person? What for?

And I'm telling you there's already a point - for some products - where you as a consumer already can't tell the difference and the only difference you're choosing between is what you're told about the product and not the product itself. With continued advancement of AI and robotic manufacturing there will absolutely be a point where being told it's hand-made will be the only way you'd know.

So what are you gonna do when nobody tells you?

And frankly, your example of a Dali painting is a laughably bad example since the art world is absolutely cancerous with fakes that aren't even made with the exactitude robots can achieve. Just by bringing that example up you're abandoning your entire argument, so far as I'm seeing.

Yeah, 'AI doesn't meet the semantics of having actual meat hands' isn't the argument you're thinking it is, mate.

ESPECIALLY when that argument really ends with 'yet'.

Forever and ever? Or until an AI is assigned the task to maximize a robot's dexterity and associated programming?

Oh, that's simply an issue of programming some degree of latitude into the robot's parameters, and 'randomizing' them.

I think the biggest variable people downplay is the extreme youth of the universe. The universe has not been able to harbor baryonic, carbon-based life for all that long since it requires at least the second generation of stars to develop. Somebody has to be first and it very well could be us.

Fuck that, I want a tricorder with sensors n' shit.

From what we see here in the Solar system, single-environment planets look to be the norm - except they're wildly out of spec to harbor carbon biology.

Many of the conditions for carbon biology require liquid water, which has a fairly narrow temperature range and wildly different qualities as temps approach the extremes of that range.

Taking that fact in hand, planets with carbon life *should* have varying biomes simply because the temp range is so narrow but fairly variable within that range, imho. Even eliminating the effect of atmospheric gasses helping to balance temps out, the simple curvature of Earth forces temperature variances in the planet's water and that effect should hold true regardless of the planet in question such that you'd get varying biomes at varying latitudes. IMHO. Somebody check my logic, please.

Define 'treatment' in a way that removes the possibility of doing *anything* to improve autism symptoms, please. We already know that dietary changes can lessen the symptoms for some, so you're already wrong on that point.

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Frankly, medical technology is pretty much the LAST area I'd say something is going to be impossible; mate.

'There's no aliens in the sky because women won't fuck' is the single-dumbest fucking thing I've ever read on reddit.

The funniest thing about your comment is that, in terms of the Drake Equation, the universe is still *spectacularly* young. This fucker's barely in pre-school, mate.

To think we've reached the age when kids don't remember the Aibo and how it was a complete and utter commercial failure.

Kids, y'all thinking about the Future doesn't accomplish jack shit if you don't know your Past.

Considering the fact that multiple universes only exists as a concept in our heads due to a science experiment (all other ideas about the nature of Reality derive from pre-Scientific myths and such), that tells me multiverse theory has a higher-than-zero chance of being truth.

So, there's a higher-than-zero chance of 'you' existing in another universe.

I cannot explain how sad it is to see you thinking one needs to be a professor in order to know what the words you choose to use actually mean.

See-through holographic displays are the absolute dumbest shit in scifi. NOBODY is ever going to do better work having to filter out all the irrelevant information of the background. It's like thinking printing every page of a book on the same sheet of paper is a better way to read.

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And no, there is no 'mini-disease' caused by flatscreens. Muscle strain isn't a damned disease.

Security camera recordings will be obsolete, but folks will still trust their own cameras to show them their situation at hand.

And knowing that cats were the last animal to be domesticated it makes sense we wouldn't have developed as much resistance against them, imho.

Eventually, the only 'star' of any consequence will be which AI made the movie. Instead of Kubrick fans you'll have Direct-O-Tron 37a fans.