avogadro convinced me to watch it. Oh my god it was awful.

Yeah, I bet a suburban kid who's full of anxiety over highschool kids and highschool kid stuff just needs to enhance his despair and lifelessness to understand what it's like to live in poverty, in a nation where the laws he takes for granted do not protect him and his family from bad things and bad people, where the only authority that keeps order in his native land is one of those bad things made up of bad people! I bet the suburban kid understands what it's like to really see no light at the end of the tunnel. Because the suburban kid really understands that sort of hopelessness. He's seen unjust laws maim and kill. He's lost family. Yeah I bet he'll cry me a river.

wtf = he's on drugs

The funny part is that the kids posting about how empathetic they are all are online in countries far above the struggles they think they understand.

I respectfully disagree. I think you are wrong. We should definitely be stockpiling shotguns for the robot revolution.

I'm not saying it's necessarily impossible. I wouldn't know. I know this. But I also know that if it is possible, it's not like we're on the verge of accomplishing it.

lol zarf. It's been a while, but I know we had some basic computers as early as the mid-late '40s. While the technologies to process and store information have improved TREMENDOUSLY since then, both in how much they improved and how quickly, modern computers are not some entirely different thing than early computers. They still have code that processors run on. They still take input and process it and output it according to the code just like they did 50 years ago. So if you asked someone 50 years ago if it was "science fiction" to think that they might have computers that were SO much faster, they'd be judging what they knew to be the limits of computer technology. Someone educated enough would obviously not call it "science fiction," seeing as we've improved computers this much.

This is a bit different than just presuming "since computer technology has improved so much, surely artificial intelligence is soon to be developed!" AI is more than just the input, processing, and output of computers. No matter if we develop computers a million times faster than they are right now, that doesn't give us AI. This same progression we've seen does not necessarily lead to AI at all.

Yes. It's just highly speculative and purely theoretical. Energy use and space colonization and junk. Wacko!

Gladiator is just so empathetic! ha ha ha ha

I think the point he's trying to make is that most children these days are whores.

Just what we need. More science fiction in this thread.

Your aim sounds pretty low.