experts are saying by 2100 we will be there, when artificial ai overtakes human intelligence.

at some point, we will have to define what life is. if we build a robot that is smarter then us, and it can replicate itself, whats to say that is not the way we get off this planet? if we send humanoid robots to the nearest galaxy and they land on a machine habitable planet, they can start reproducing. Would you consider that human existence, just a form of evolution, or is it just humans throwing toys at other planets? this keeps me up at night when im drunk

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Ray Kurzweil thinks it will be around 2040. He takes like 100 pills a day to try to stay alive for when it occurs.

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Yeah, I think he said that in 15 years we'll be able to download the full contents of the human brain so that it would essentially make humans immortal...just replace the worn-out body parts and keep the brain on a computer. Lots of philosophical questions coming in the next few decades regarding what is life.

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Yes, he spoke at a conference I was at a year or so ago, and I seriously walked away depressed. It was one of those "this guy is so smart and we know so little in the whole scheme of things" type of depressed. Also, to your point, the way we view "life" is going to be very different soon. The dude has been dead-on with most of his predictions regarding technology and medicine.

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maybe its the way its supposed to be though. obviously we can't stay on earth, and if we know anything about life its biggest purpose is to multiply and spread. problem is, the universe puts the nearest planets so far away its literally impossible to get biological material to them, let alone the nearest galaxy. maybe building machines that can survive in space and multiply on other planets is what we were supposed to do. or maybe we freeze a bunch of sperm and eggs and shoot them to another planet with a robot that can make a bunch of test tube babies that grow up and habit the new planet.

in any case, its just becoming less likely to me that we will ever find a way to travel across space in an any sort of efficient way. its very possible the universe is packed full of intelligent life, but we have no way to get to each other or even communicate in the simplest ways... i mean, shit, ALL radio broadcasts beaming from earth.. even since the early 1900's... have been traveling at the speed of light this whole time and its not enough to reach even a tiny fraction of our own galaxy... and our galaxy is one of billions or possibly trillions out there. if light is by far the fastest method of communication there is, then 99.999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of the rest of the universe has no way to know we are even here.

look at this. what our galaxy would look like if we could take a photo of it from that distance, one galaxy out of hundreds of billions. and our radio signals have traveled so little that we cant even mark it on the map without zooming way in.


its absolutely mind blowing.

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were talking about real life, not the bible

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