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Comment author: drethelin 22 May 2015 06:45:52PM 1 point [-]

This just seems stupid to me. Ending aging is fundamentally SLOW change. In 100 or 200 or 300 years from now, as more and more people gain access to anti-aging (since it will start off very expensive), we can worry about that. But conscious AI will be a force in the world in under 50 years. And it doesn't even have to be SUPER intelligent to cause insane amounts of social upheaval. Duplicability means that even 1 human level AI can be world-wide or mass produced in a very short time!

Comment author: Lumifer 22 May 2015 07:33:56PM 2 points [-]

But conscious AI will be a force in the world in under 50 years.

"Will"? You guarantee that?