-- Posted by Cunning Stunt at 6:38 pm on Mar. 17, 2007 This is a gripping little video. It's about 6 minutes long, but it really shook my world. It will probably shake yours, too. Since most people are completely unaware of it. Click. -- Posted by silentkiller at 6:39 pm on Mar. 17, 2007 yeah iv esene that video before its pretty cool -- Posted by Lukerules12 at 6:47 pm on Mar. 17, 2007 lol that was really good -- Posted by Frisky Dingo at 6:48 pm on Mar. 17, 2007 Yeh I watched that yesterday on albinoblacksheep. It made me really uncomfortable. So I decided to stop thinking about it. -- Posted by starburst4231 at 6:51 pm on Mar. 17, 2007 That's intense. -- Posted by mo money17 at 6:54 pm on Mar. 17, 2007 cool, i learned stuff -- Posted by proanalove13 at 7:41 pm on Mar. 17, 2007 I didn't beleive some of it. -- Posted by Cunning Stunt at 9:17 pm on Mar. 17, 2007 Quote: from proanalove13 at 10:41 pm on Mar. 17, 2007 I didn't beleive some of it. Believe what you want, then. Whether or not it's factual. -- Posted by JohnTheNormalOne at 2:18 pm on Mar. 20, 2007 What's it about? I can't see it because I'm having troubles with my net. -- Posted by Sapientia at 12:26 pm on Mar. 22, 2007 Wow, good link. I learned some new things, and I consider myself rather erudite. But I doubt that supercomputers will exceed the cognitive capability of humans in the near future. That part was BS. -- Posted by TheGeminiSage at 1:01 pm on Mar. 22, 2007 Yeah, the thing about computers was BS. Computers can only be as smart as their programmers! But the rest was kind of odd. Like the stuff about college and honors kids.... -- Posted by Cunning Stunt at 1:26 pm on Mar. 22, 2007 Quote: from TheGeminiSage at 4:01 pm on Mar. 22, 2007 Computers can only be as smart as their programmers! Sorry, but this is incorrect. Computers are as smart as their programs allow them to be, not their programmers. -- Posted by Sapientia at 11:50 pm on Mar. 22, 2007 Sorry, but this is incorrect. Computers are as smart as their programs allow them to be, not their programmers. Programs are written and compiled in binary code by HUMAN programmers. Each and every programming instruction is a product of the human intellect. I'm not completely opposed to the idea of super-human computers, but what about creative thinking and consicousness? If we do not fully understand these phenomena ourselves, what are the chances of reproducing them in computers? Virtually zero. And the time frame given in the video was unrealistic. -- Posted by asb at 4:32 am on Mar. 23, 2007 The thing that struck me was the bit about the number of babies born during the video - 60 for the US, 244 for China, 351 for India.  But it wasn't those figures that strcuk me, it was the thought of the infant mortality rates.  Of those 60 US babies, at most one might die before the age of 1, for China, 6, for India, 19.