/sci/ - Science & Math

>in the year 5555
>your arms hanging limp at your sides
>your legs got nothing to do
>some machine is doing that for you

>>5441210
Continued from....

The first idea would ask the very simple question "Can we just build an adult human in a computer, molecule by molecule, and then just press 'start' ?" The answer to this will be very clearly no. While this had been done for single celled organisms, the number of interactions and states to quantify at any given time in a human are staggering. They will try but never achieve anything more than a pile of simulated goo.

Can humans be "evolved"? It isn't practical or even theoretically possible to simulate evolution from step one and get humans because the initial conditions just can't be known exactly, not to mention that if it were possible this would imply that free will has no impact in large populations over very long time scales (I guess this is debatable, but the initial conditions problem is good enough reason).

Finally, scientists realize that they will have to figure out a way to "give birth" to a human via simulation. In order to do this, scientists working in the simulation field borrow research from biologists who have developed artificial wombs for applications in cloning animals and allowing humans who cannot otherwise give birth to have children (an alternative to surrogacy). The simulation scientists are able to simulate the artificial womb and then seed it with an embryo. Upon the birth of the simulated baby, everyone stands in shock as they realize the implications of what has just been done. AI has been born...but, what now?

Continued...

>>3843829

>>3374881

First error: It is less _or equal_ (otherwise you say the chance is non-zero, while at the same time you say it's zero).

Second error: The chance is non-zero, thermodynamics just makes it highly unlikely. Since all probabilities are higher than zero, the chance of life to be created per accident is larger than zero.

the universe seems to be a big stage for reactions to occur within. it's filled with the stuff that can develop into lifeforms, and absolutely littered with worlds and the stars that host them. It's a giant sandbox for intelligent beings, just waiting the uncounted eons to be touched.

A science wizard from far into the future appears before you and allows you to choose one of the following. What do.

A: You can stop time for one hour a day. During that time you don't age but you can't stack hours.

B: A ring that made it so that you absorbed all the knowledge and skills of anyone or any book you touched but it breaks after 2 years. You keep all the knowledge and skills but you can't take abilities.

C: Each day you get 1000 kilograms of any food you want in a bottomless bag.
You can't get weed but you can get weed cookies..

D: A van that allows you to travel anywhere in the known universe that seats 7 people. You can also breath without oxygen when you're within one kilometer of the car. The van never breaks down or needs petrol.

E: You can rewind time for 1 hour a day. Non stackable and you're the only one who knows.

F: Can turn any photod item into a reality for 3 hours, then it goes back into the photo. No drawings or photshopped. And no repeats of items or photos.

G: 6 pieces of chocolate that give you immortality, and invincibility for 160 years each.

H: A world you can travel to at anytime that's 1/10 the size of earth. You can play god with it for one year, creating animals and plants, caves and lakes. After one year it's set in stone. After that you can invite 10 people to visit when ever you invite them for a year. Then you pick another 10 and so on. World outside slows to almost stop while you're there.

I: You can travel into tvs to make your own versions of movies, play vidya or just fuck stars.

J: unlimited supply of puddi.

Not necessarily "sex bots" but it is pretty much a given that they would be used for sex.

The Government has agreed to fund and staff 5 science or engineering related projects to completion with a little left over to initially expand on whatever the project leads to. The projects have to be something currently being researched/developed. You may also include 1 or 2 sentences describing why you chose a certain project.

Let's see what you can come up with /sci/

If you can't think of any, go to a science news website, squat over your monitor and use your dick as a divining rod (note: for some of you, your dicks may be too small to tell what it's pointing at)

>>1663834

If I had an autographed picture of Carl Sagan for every time you post that link...

But don't get me wrong, that would be awesome, but I'm not really holding my breath, otherwise I'll end up all disappoint at the future, just another lobster at the bottom of the tank waving his claws at other lobsters passing by in the accelerating future.

Wow I have to stop reading Accelerando.