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Open manufacturing bump.

ITT: People get buttjelly because their vision isn't augmented.

>Over the next few years, Ede's eternal computer - Ede himself, as God - rapidly continued his ontogenesis toward the infinite. Many times, Ede copied and recopied his expanding consciousness into a succession of larger and more sophisticated computers which he himself designed and assembled, and then into whole arrays of robots and computers of various functions (Where Ede-as-man had been a master of computational origami, Ede the God perfected this art of interconnecting and 'folding' together many computer units so that they functioned as an integrated whole.) One day, it came time for Ede to leave Alumit and go out in the universe. He ascended to heaven, into the deep space above the planet that could no longer be his home. Using his power as a god, with the help of tiny, self-replicating robots the size of a bacterium, he disassembled asteroids, comets and other heavenly debris into their elements; he used these elements to fabricate new circuitry and neurologics. He feasted on the elements of material reality, and he grew. According to the Doctrine of the Halting which Kostos Olorun hastily formulated to prevent other architects from following his path, Ede the God was destined to grow until he had absorbed the entire universe.

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>>3279626

>And transhuman predictions are often, at the very least, unfounded, and at the most, asinine.

Anders Sandberg, to name one, has a PhD in computational neuroscience. I wouldn't call his views on mind uploading "unfounded".

You're referring to the Singularity people who sit on their asses re-reading Accelerando for the five hundredth time and thinking that in thirty years robots will pop into existance, tofu-powered, tofu-driven and tofu-manufactured cars will whisk us through the heavens and to Nerdtopia. Please don't confuse transhumanism with Singularitarianism, the trolls are already too past the point of no return to see a line there.

>>3205770

>yfw a bomb

>Oh look a tangentially AI-related thread
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>>3032311

:3

>>2918855

We've been genetically engineering plants since the dawn of human history, since the invention of agriculture. Determining which crops are pruned, which are harvested, and killing certain animals while allowing others to breed more is a form of primeval, inefficient, and blind genetic engineering.

jc a bomb

a bomb?

a bomb

My vision is augmented.

jc a bomb

a bomb?

a bomb

>>2670361

Economically, the world is actually flattening out. The only place where this is all backwards is America and assoc. neoliberal nutjob Randian hero countries where the governent is fubared in the head.

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>>2661640

My vision is augmented.