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To: lucky_limey who wrote (47533)	12/5/2017 2:14:10 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 362543

Besides, computers don't have to do all those things. They just have to present a convincing simulation of doing those things, which is all they have ever done. As a chessplayer, I watched all those arguments about creativity, imagination, etc. go down in flames as to why a chess program would NEVER beat chess grandmaster, let alone the best chessplayers on the globe. We're just inefficient, VERY slow evolving meat computers, after all. Bound to this primate we have to drag around with us. About the regressing part - machines have already enabled most of us in developed countries to be much less physically able than our predecessors. There's no reason to assume that our brains won't atrophy along with our muscles, as machines pick up the slack. Future visiting aliens from another star may find a race of retarded hairless primates enabled by machines, and wonder how that happened.