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Reasons To Be Miserable Reasons to be miserable Give his brain a pain There is littl…
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mrrolight

Hmmm, I wonder if you're falling for the false logic that because atheism does not have a moral code it must therefore be cold and heartless.

Well for a start, atheists don't believe in atheism. Because atheism isn't even a thing. So I guess it's literally true that atheism doesn't have a temperature or a heart because it doesn't have anything, but you would be wrong to assign 'cold' and 'heartless' as value judgments to atheists.

All humans, including those who don't believe in god or religion, have a moral code that predates religion. Indeed it turns out that atheists are massively underrepresented in the world's prisons which suggests we are far better at knowing how to be good than the religious.

In fact some of us recoil from a cold and heartless religion that vilifies homosexuals who live their lives 'as god made them,' spreads untold suffering from AIDS through the African continent with its ban on protection policy, yet covers up its own institutionalised child sex crime racket leaving a wake of devastation. If that is a religious moral code, no wonder the prisons are full of believers.

Oh and rather than take your rather glib misrepresentation of Stephen Fry's position I should encourage people to make up their own minds from this discussion: https://youtu.be/JZRcYaAYWg4.



MyOther Soul

I think Stephen Fry is a great human, and wise, but I doubt his predictions of the future of AI and of human society. All humans, including Stephen Fry, don't know what we don't know.


What are the limits of A.I? We don't know, we could reach them anyday. I think people are often unaware of how much human intelligence is required to build an A.I. Humans always have to define what the inputs and the outputs mean. AI is a series of computations and algorithms. What the equations optimise and what is optimal are defined outside of the AI. A.I doesn't care and doesn't have the capacity for caring,. It might be able to simulate it the way weather models simulate the weather. But just as weather models don't create rain, simulating human emotions is creating emotions.


Can humans live to 120? Some can but maybe there are some inherent limits to the age that a human can still function.


It is a mistake to take the current rate of progress in any field of science and assume it will continue. Take physics, from 1890 to 1920 huge progress was made, but that rate of progress hasn't continued.


We don't know what going to happen, we can only make educated guess, guesses we and Stephen Fry should be very uncertain about.



Technik Meister

I am over my 70th year and still look for the edge. I write models for Watson. No charge. IBM think I am 23.
But I consider I am privileged. I have witnessed these things: I can remember or witnessed:
The automatic telephone exchange
The first TV (in Australia)
The first satellite
The first man in space
The first man on the moon
The first electric typrwriter
The first commercial mini computer
Sold the first IBM PC (in Australia)
Sold the first colour monitor on a PC (in Australia)
The first group to be immunised against Mumps Reubella and Measels by government
The first oral polio vaccine
The first person to use a biro in my school class.
There are so many things where I witnessed them first. My kids envy me. But I look ahead and feel we are about to lose control of data and we will face a singularity in coming years. Privacy will enable us to be paid for our information, not just have it taken from us and sold on. So guard your private information and one day you will be able to sell it.



Peter Smafield

Someone just asked how will technological singularity effect the economic well-being of the average person in the world? I
suspect that there will be a lot of social unrest because with the current economic structure of corporations produce some kind of beneficial product whether it be intellectual or physical and they pay people to do the work that produces that product then the product can be sold to anybody else who wants to buy. If however everyone is laid off because machines are doing all the work
there’s no one to buy the product you don’t have to pay the machine but if the users of the product have no money or income to buy the product that you made all these products and they are basically worthless because you can’t sell them. So there has to be some way for the people be able to exchange something for the product they want either by having a universal income which is paid for by corporations and distributed by the government or something like that which I suspect it will be different methods devised by the political entities throughout the world.

Some will be better than the others and hopefully, the best ones will eventually dominate. Also, there will need to educate the entire population on the need for continuing education particularly on the need for sound logic and critical thinking which may fail the first adult generation after the technological singularity. It’s very difficult for adults to change their mindset some will be able to do it but the majority will not and therefore the social unrest occur. But I would also suspect abuse and be in need for incentives of some kind to keep the next generation in school long enough for them to learn the new skills needed for a life of leisure for a life that will allow some kind of meaningful activity or work. We have already seen the kinds of social unrest that comes particularly with late teens and young adults who don’t have some type of structured meaningful activity to occupy themselves.

That’s when our baser natures seem to take hold and create social destruction of some kind. I don’t know what those incentives be but I suggest that every effort must be bent towards every member of society who has an IQ over 70 be required to learn the skills for logical and critical thinking. Now I’m not sure where the IQ cutoff should be. But if we're having a technological singularity perhaps it would be time for genetic to make sure that everyone has the capacity to have an IQ of at least 110 on the current scale. A new IQ scale could be developed after that generation reaches maturity.

I believe that the IQ scales have had to been adjusted every decade by about three points in order to keep up with the increased general education of the population. However, it seems that the IQ of the general population may have slipped in the last 10 or 20
years.



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Jeff Watkins

What a remarkable talk! I've long admired Fry for his other talents, and only over the last year or so have been exposed to his eye-opening videos thanks to youtube. With this one, however, I suddenly grasp what a huge intellect he is. How can one thank this wonderful man enough?

rinzertanz

Brilliant & insightful, thought-provoking & original: thank you Stephen Fry. May future humanity be endowed with similar empathy, compassion and, above all, humour. Bless you man. You da Best!

Duncan

The depth and breadth of Stephen's knowlege, insights and talent is difficult to believe. For my American friends, check out the old British comedies he used to star in, Blackadder - and A Bit of Fry and Lawrie, where he co-stars with the guy now known as "House". Not just a national treasure, an international treasure!

John Ferguson

A brilliant, interesting and well-researched man. Really great to hear Stephen Fry and he gives me hope for the future of mankind.

Chris A

Stephen's own enthusiasm breeds more enthusiam. A pleasure to listen to

Ralph Church

I am an engineering student and this man renewed my love of science and mathematics. Stephen Fry has to be the best orator I have ever listened to. His talks are so engaging and full of imagery.

bruce mason

A gentleman and a gentle man... he has such warmth and intelligence plus the ability to communicate complex ideas in a clear way. Funny too !!

Jazmine Bell

Stephen Fry's command of the English language and his story telling is exquisite, he calms my rapid mind.

randal flagg

@James Thomas typo, I think. *rabid

Megs F

Stephen Fry is a pleasure to listen to every time, he explains the world majestically in poetic detail, he has given me a new insight into the reasons for the future construct of the world. Thank you Sir.

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