Comments on: What's with the 'God' Angle? https://blog.speculist.com/artificial_intelligence/whats-with-the-2.html Live to see it. Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: CokfruffKar https://blog.speculist.com/artificial_intelligence/whats-with-the-2.html#comment-9723 CokfruffKar Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:15:54 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=1709#comment-9723 Dear Friends, a little 9-year old girl is crying out for our help. Olga is sick with cancer and urgently needs 100,000 Euro for bone marrow transplantation. Her parents do not have this money, but hope that kind and mercifull people somewhere in the world still exist.

In order to continue her life, a little 9-year old Ukrainian girl Olga Netyukhailo desperately and urgently needs your help.

Olga was diagnosed Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (blood cancer) and currently needs 100 000 Euros for bone marrow transplantation from unrelated donor.

This type of surgery cannot be made in Ukraine, therefore, Olga’s parents brought a girl to Israel. Olga is hospitalized in “Hadassah” hospital (Jerusalem) and is staying there since December 2008. During these 3 month girl has been prepared for surgery – getting chemotherapy and waited for remission. But in addition to cancer, it was discovered that Olga’s lungs are infected with fungus, which makes the treatment more complicated.

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]]> By: Stephen Gordon https://blog.speculist.com/artificial_intelligence/whats-with-the-2.html#comment-9722 Stephen Gordon Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:13:38 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=1709#comment-9722 Seems like this author is trying to bait fundamentalists. Maybe he thinks if he can stir up some controversy then he’ll have something interesting to write about.

Self-assembling computer circuits seem pretty interesting already.

]]> By: MikeD https://blog.speculist.com/artificial_intelligence/whats-with-the-2.html#comment-9721 MikeD Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:38:59 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=1709#comment-9721 people generally do not respond well to positive statements. If they did we would see “Vote for me because I’m the obvious best choice” rather than being inundated with “The other candidate is terrible. I’m the good guy and I endorse this message.”
Good news is harder to sell. Self-fabricating computers isn’t offensive on it’s own, setting a contrived context where they usurp power reserved for someone’s God makes them worth reading about, if only to make sure God’s power remains supreme.

]]> By: Vx https://blog.speculist.com/artificial_intelligence/whats-with-the-2.html#comment-9720 Vx Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:07:22 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=1709#comment-9720 The matter is… they just didn’t realize that self-assembling (and evolution too) is everywhere. They should get used to it (and to the scientific approach to everything) – or die.

]]> By: The Chad https://blog.speculist.com/artificial_intelligence/whats-with-the-2.html#comment-9719 The Chad Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:09:43 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=1709#comment-9719 I think they were referring to the similarity to nature, essentially building designer life-forms that turn themselves into computers. It’s still a stretch, especially considering they never discuss the ethical issues they hint at.

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