A re-evaluation of the above silliness is required. The trajectory of your logic is tangled up in blue.

You need to be drinking yak butter tea to clear your mind of its endless clutter and the tangled cobwebs of overthinking:

love-yak-butter-tea/

Don't worry. You and I won't be in the prediction business or privy to the predictions.

I'll discover what I want for dinner later this afternoon. Doesn't matter to me at all whether it can be predicted. I'll make this discovery at the appropriate time and not a moment beforehand.

I'd rather take Groucho's advice than Karl's.

Yes
Can? Sure. Will? Is likely to? I don't think we have any basis for thinking so.
No. "Are trannies mentally ill or should we pretend they're not and legally force all the non-mentally ill to bend their own reality to cater to their mental illness" is a question of values, not science.

No. Most social questions are value questions. Even the ones that aren't, both sides deny basic, well settled facts in order to push their particular values/desired society, or even because they're ignorant.

I enjoy you bringing new ideas here, but from this quote, Alan Watts sounds like a cuck with a poverty of imagination, that's causing him to become overly attached to his particular imagining of what things will be thing will be like.

It is good that you disagree and have your own views on science-fiction.

Nevertheless, perhaps you ought to read more and post less for a while. Ascribing Watts, of all writers, with 'poverty of imagination' is telling.

Thanks for the advice. It is obvious this clown has a poverty of imagination. He is offering an incredibly narrow and unimaginative view of humanity's future.
Not really. Apart from it not being real, the main criticism here is that the real world will become incredibly boring. As the technology here grows, people will enter virtual worlds that are far more interesting than this one. Basically, living out movies and games and fantastically interesting interactive lives in simulated worlds.
See this is where he becomes an obvious cuck with a poverty of imagination. If anything, we are likely diverge more and more in our experiences of life, as virtual reality takes hold, and we choose to explore those aspects and virtual lives we find most interesting. This is happening already on the tiniest of scales; look at how technology is isolating us into particular partisan news views, entertainment choices, thought bubbles.
Yawn. The guy is a major bore.
This is just more idiocy from a guy who's not that bright. There will never be external technology that can read thoughts. Mood perhaps, but that's about it. And it's not going to be cameras/external devices that will give clues to our thoughts. It'll be our deliberate plugging in to virtual worlds, where we're fed information streams.

The most likely setup is one like we have today - privacy if we want it, monitoring when we go online. As long as populaces control governments, that is likely to be true, despite the fantastical thinking of people who aren't very bright, like your friend here.
Confirmed dickhead.

There is a lot of anger in you. I hope you find time, if not to read, at least to consider more closely how you feel day-to-day, and why. Honesty applied to others' views and emotions is one thing. Applied to your own, is another.

Thanks for the advice. I could respond in kind:
Perhaps you ought to do more and read less for a while?

But unlike Zeno I don't believe you overthink - I think overthinking is healthy when you're in your late teens. It sets up a rich network of familiar ideas for later in life.

So by all means carry on being you. But please recognize that your hero is an idiot, at least as far as it relates to futurism (to be fair, futurism makes idiots of lots of people).

I know this may not help but there was a philosopher (poet?) of the 19th century who had great fear for mankind. He observed that the "head" or "abstracted intellect" had become so powerful that he could see the human being as a large ball with appendages filament like, such that if he would roll from one place to another due to disuse atrophy of his(mankind's) other capabilities; man, lost in space.

Professor Watts and all the apologists for the "machine" are the "head" people as the machine is the apotheosis of a glacial head borne activity. the machine presents the final "death" aspect of human meanderings as "life" is not spoken to, only one sided behavior.

To put it clearer the machine is the consequence of an illness to which mankind needs remedy. Understanding the end of life and the beginnings of life is the work of man consciously and unconsciously, each to his own path.

Man dies and we speak of immortality (save for a few materialists,very few) but who speaks to "birth" or the fact of "unbornness" ? The appeal to egotism is ensconced on our approach to immortality whereas if we approach and comprehend "birth" an air of "selflessness" is the natural consequence.

We only care about the coming "death" but what the hey, we're living so who cares about where we come from; the natural setting for "selflesness", no ax to grind.

Cliff notes: only "head", egotism and an ersatz immortality and of course "machines".

The "heart" or "life" or "unbornness' within a comprehensive selflesness.

To be clear, machines are here to stay, nor must we run away from them . the materialist scientist is the road to the future as if he is observing properly he will note the undercurrent of supersibility within his findings and be able to scientize properly.

The so called scientific thinkers who leave the earth and drum on into world ends have to brought to question . Materiality is always with us in some form, not necessarily as present, but will display a transformative effect.

yada,yada,yada

I'm willing to throw all caution to the wind and support a super AI just to tell me what the **** that means.

gibberish ?

It means what it is.

Watts pegged his lessor critics well before his lessor critics even tried to peg him. Which inspires the sound of an Alan Watt's cackle in my imagination.

It seems that nowadays AI just means statistics.

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That's quite a graph. A more rigorous scale is needed.

The statistical data it is based on would be an interesting thing to review. Anyway, I think Time vs Number of Surfboards Manufactured in Siberia would be more useful.

That graph should probably go into the OED; under Gibberish.

speaking of "telling" and "lack of imagination", the random and inappropriate use of the word "cuck" there seems pretty telling to me and I would bet money this is the work of a trump supporter

Is it poor observation or have Trump supporters become just as opinionated as SJWs?

I miss the time when they could only string together four word sentences like: they're taking our jobs!

Now they have opinions about the economy and about science. This isn't even their final form.

You guys are hilarious. Physics graduate, trader, avid reader, world traveler, intellectual interest in nearly everything, all precede me being a Trump supporter. In fact, intellectual curiosity and being well traveled and well acquainted with philosophy are why I am a Trump supporter. Without intellectual curiosity I'd have the same view of him that the mass media does.

That's some top notch detective work/rational thinking there, Sun Tzu. I would bet money you may have read The Art of War. I'm guessing you might even quote it to people!

I'm curious about Hitler.

Will there ever be a machine Hitler...or?

Odds of machine Hitler?

I'm not sure what you're asking.

If you're merely stating that you're curious about Hitler, why? The man seems fairly uninteresting.

A guy that stupid messing up so much. And he had six letters in his name, not a handful.

Trump is the living embodiment of the concept of a con-man/confidence-man. He makes you feel confident. That's what he's good at. Thats what all good CEOs are good at. Those on the right are a most fitting target, as they haven't felt confident in some time.

P.s. in a few days I'm coming up the east coast to Byron Bay for the Blues Festival. If you're staying in the area up there Mr. physics graduate, happy to grab some beers and introduce you to my sexy, blond housemates. Just don't bring up Trump...women are allergic to him. They're also allergic to political talk because they're blond and have assets in demand....and....

because they know better.