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Originally posted by Captaintripps:
The computer you are using now would have taken up most of a building thirty or forty years ago and we simplified and identified key components rather well in order to shrink it down to size. The powerbook I'm using now is more powerful than the Quadra 840 I owned before and is about a quarter of the size and the new Titanium(sorry, Macs were the easiest example at hand) is much smaller and lighter than this monster I type on now. So we've done pretty well on our own, not to mention the fact that we are still evolving and that each person makes thousands of new neuronal connexions every day. And again I'd like to state that I don't think there's any evidence that there will be any kind of race. It has been shown that when left alone programs are parasitic to the nth degree. Tom Ray, a biologist at Harvard, was one of the first people to create artificial life within a computer. He created a digital "creature" that copied itself, but the copy was always slightly different. Over the course of the experiment they did indeed simplify themselves and cut their programming down to a size the programmers at the time couldn't achieve (this has since been done by a programmer). The thing is that all of the programmes were parasitic. They lived in parasitic symbiosis with one another. And, to spook you out even further, they were released into the internet a few years back. Wonder what they're up to.
The computer you are using now would have taken up most of a building thirty or forty years ago and we simplified and identified key components rather well in order to shrink it down to size. The powerbook I'm using now is more powerful than the Quadra 840 I owned before and is about a quarter of the size and the new Titanium(sorry, Macs were the easiest example at hand) is much smaller and lighter than this monster I type on now. So we've done pretty well on our own, not to mention the fact that we are still evolving and that each person makes thousands of new neuronal connexions every day. And again I'd like to state that I don't think there's any evidence that there will be any kind of race. It has been shown that when left alone programs are parasitic to the nth degree. Tom Ray, a biologist at Harvard, was one of the first people to create artificial life within a computer. He created a digital "creature" that copied itself, but the copy was always slightly different. Over the course of the experiment they did indeed simplify themselves and cut their programming down to a size the programmers at the time couldn't achieve (this has since been done by a programmer). The thing is that all of the programmes were parasitic. They lived in parasitic symbiosis with one another. And, to spook you out even further, they were released into the internet a few years back. Wonder what they're up to.
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Macs are the best example because they are better.
Second:
These little animal things, they sound alot like the Hurkle virus, the B stran.
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