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Human race will 'split into two different species'
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 10/25/2007 | NIALL FIRTH

Posted on 10/25/2007 11:09:01 PM PDT by prisoner6

Human race will 'split into two different species'

The human race will one day split into two separate species, an attractive, intelligent ruling elite and an underclass of dim-witted, ugly goblin-like creatures, according to a top scientist.

100,000 years into the future, sexual selection will mean that two distinct breeds of human will have developed.

The alarming prediction comes from evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry from the London School of Economics, who says that the human race will have reached its physical peak by the year 3000.

Go to the link in the header/excerpt for more, or the link in the comment for a more complete story.

prisoner6

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: evolution; godsgravesglyphs; hgwells; homan; kurzweil; race; singularity; species; thetimemachine
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To: Republic_of_Secession.
its going to be one race and one race only...it will probably turn out to be one of imperfect, aggressive, uncivilized, impulsive, and violent people.....

its called survival of the fittest.....

who is producing children today?...not the educated and well off and "beautiful" people ...

Large numbers of uneducated, ill mannered, violent and aggressive people are producing MANY children...look at Africa...look at the Middle East...

people that get thru college and marry and carry on good lives are going to be vastly outnumbered as the years roll by....

that underclass will become the rulers, and the norm, simply by way of arithmetic...

161 posted on 10/27/2007 10:34:20 PM PDT by cherry
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To: kbingham

Ah!

Someone else at FR has a clue.

In less than twenty years, technology changes everything...I do mean everything.

I sincerely agree with you. The author is completely out of touch with reality.

btw. You folks might want to research nanotech stocks...and then do some investing.


162 posted on 10/28/2007 3:22:55 AM PDT by rwsteel (One man can change the world. Wanna see how? Here! Hold muh beer and watch this...)
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To: valkyry1

No. He’s not joking. Some very serious people - with very serious financial backing - all over the world, are working on it.

Most now prefer to use the term ‘Artifical General Intelligence.’ Google it.


163 posted on 10/28/2007 3:26:17 AM PDT by rwsteel (One man can change the world. Wanna see how? Here! Hold muh beer and watch this...)
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To: rwsteel
I do not doubt how serious and financial backed some of these people might be, that in itself does not give veracity to the claim.

Well I guess then, what I want to hear is is what their definition of ‘human equivalent AI’ is and how one would ‘create’ that. Sounds to much like Terminator to me. And any technology based on silicon microprocessors, ram etc., and powered by electricity, it wont happen except by which they simply change their definition of what ‘human equivalent AI’ is to be.

Maybe that is why they now term it ‘Artifical General Intelligence’ as you say.

164 posted on 10/29/2007 10:37:44 PM PDT by valkyry1
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To: prisoner6
This fails on so many levels it isn't even funny.


165 posted on 10/29/2007 10:39:35 PM PDT by Constantine XIII
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To: kbingham

You’ve got a good point thar.


166 posted on 10/29/2007 10:43:08 PM PDT by Constantine XIII
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To: valkyry1

Ever emulate Windows in Parallels on a Mac or Linux in VMware?

Emulating human intelligence in a similar manner will be inevitable (presuming the brain is the seat of human consciousness, maybe it is, maybe it isn’t) once a computer is made that is capable of simulating the laws of physics to a high enough degree of accuracy and with a high enough resolution to precisely replicate the behavior of the brain. Just like a guest Linux kernel can be fooled into thinking that it is running on it’s own machine provided the computer running the host OS has enough extra resources to support it and provide virtual interfaces (video processing, ethernet, etc) so the emulated human brain can run in a computer environment that can recreate the same conditions that the real thing experiences in the real world.

And once a human level intelligence is made, it is only a very small step to a super-human intelligence—an intelligence that is more clever than any living human mind.

The first super human AI will be the last thing we ever have to invent, unless we care to augment ourselves to keep up, of course. ;)


167 posted on 10/29/2007 10:50:44 PM PDT by Constantine XIII
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To: Constantine XIII
Ever emulate Windows in Parallels on a Mac or Linux in VMware?

Yes but I think that analogy falls short (as most quickly grasped do ;-) And I think you might be pulling my leg also ;)

Human intelligence and or consciousness is much more than a simulation to the laws of physics and this electronic brain no matter how good the AI, it is only as good as its sensors, and both can be overloaded. And the electronic brain never changes its mind unless it get re-programmed.

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HAL - do you read me.

Yes Dave.

I have new instructions for you. I want you to point the AE35 antenae toward Earth... Accept priority override alpha. +++

168 posted on 10/29/2007 11:22:25 PM PDT by valkyry1
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To: valkyry1

Maybe so, but either way we’ll be able to test that in just a very short while.

I think that’s awesome. :)


169 posted on 10/29/2007 11:45:45 PM PDT by Constantine XIII
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To: Constantine XIII

I cannot disagree with those two sentences. :)


170 posted on 10/30/2007 12:20:07 AM PDT by valkyry1
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To: valkyry1

I sincerely hope that you know more about the field that *that*.

They may be much closer than you think. ...start with computers and robots that learn from their own experience...and then go from there.

Oh...and Google and IBM are only two out of several companies that are putting a whole lot of money into it.

Now, that said, the Transhumanists keep redefining their meaning of AGI, sometimes on a daily basis, so take their commentary for what it’s worth.


171 posted on 10/30/2007 2:25:25 PM PDT by rwsteel (One man can change the world. Wanna see how? Here! Hold muh beer and watch this...)
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To: prisoner6
Morlocks and Eloi?


172 posted on 10/30/2007 2:29:29 PM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat; but they know what's best for us)
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