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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
- Isaac Asimov
My own Foundation story
(please post yours - they're fun to read)
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[Our research] has nothing to do directly with defending our country except to help make it worth defending ...
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[Our research] has nothing to do directly with defending our country except to help make it worth defending ...
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Good Old Fashioned Artificial Intelligence (GOFAI) Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater. ...
Well... Asimov filled on Universe with humans... living in seemingly same environments... just to make it statistically feasible.
ReplyDeleteBecause such small system as just 8 billions of us here -- cannot have something like "ideal gas equation" to predict their behavior in such a long run...
As the story moved along, Asimov moved farther away from the initial ideal gas laws analogy. By 1990, he had embraced computation in general (especially fractals and microcomputers). Alas, he died in 1992. Like others, I wanted to memorialize him a little (I'm a fan but not a fanboy). That was one motivating factor for writing "Future Psychohistory" in 2011.
DeleteWell... as prophesied one another smart ace -- virtually unknown on the West -- Stanislaw Lem.
DeleteIt must became EXPERIMENTAL science. ;-)
Lem's "Solaris" was released as a major film in 2002. But you're right, he is under-appreciated.
DeleteWas not able to watch it.
DeleteSame as more recent "Lem-inspired" "Futurological Congress".
Such a ruin. :-(((( of brilliant ideas...