RichardKennaway comments on AI timeline predictions: are we getting better? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 23 August 2012 04:42:10PM *  0 points [-]

Failure of imagination, based on postulating the currently existing means of propulsion (rocket or jet engines). Here are some zero energy (but progressively harder) alternatives: buoyant force, magnetic hovering, gravitational repulsion. Or consult your favorite hard sci-fi.

I also can dream.