ciphergoth comments on Open Thread: July 2010, Part 2 - Less Wrong

6 Post author: Alicorn 09 July 2010 06:54AM

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Comment author: Alexandros 16 July 2010 10:56:42AM 0 points [-]

Can you elaborate on what specifically you think they're doing wrong?

Comment author: ciphergoth 16 July 2010 11:20:01AM 2 points [-]

I haven't looked in detail, but two things struck me at a glance: first, it's tremendously specific; second, the impact of technologies like brain emulation seems hugely understated.

Comment author: DanielVarga 25 July 2010 06:51:33AM 2 points [-]

The silly thing is that they present it as a timeline, but it is in fact an incoherent list of technological breakthroughs without really considering the interaction between them. It's like they had a nano writer, a climate writer and so on, all of them wrote a timeline, and the editors merged them in the end.

Comment author: Christian_Szegedy 26 July 2010 11:39:26PM *  2 points [-]

He he, poor WW2 veterans miss the deadline by just one year:

2044 - The last veterans of WW2 are passing away

2045 - Humans are becoming intimately merged with machines

Comment author: byrnema 26 July 2010 11:47:13PM 2 points [-]

When I'm (physically) driving down the street, I'd like to be able to right-click on a tree I see and find out what kind of tree it is. And who planted it (e.g., federal or state funds) and when, if I want to know.

I can't wait till then.