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Interesting Site:

http://www.exitmundi.nl/

-Wade

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http://wadejq.blogspot.com

Nice site. I like the fact it recognises one of the greatest threats to humanity that now exists, the potential for a zombie apocalypse. Have you planned your escape from the living dead? ;)

Ragnarok looks like the most fun. I like the aspect that you have one giant chance to get revenge on all your enemies before the end. I look forward to the giant viking battle which will destroy us all.

I love that website.

Hehe, bookmarked. :D

Awesome! I can't wait for robots to rise against their masters and destroy us with super-cool laser guns and cybernetic warriors! Sure we'd die, but what a way to go!

Awesome! I can't wait for robots to rise against their masters and destroy us with super-cool laser guns and cybernetic warriors! Sure we'd die, but what a way to go!

We should arm those defence robots with only super-cool EMP guns. Then when they try and turn on us, they look on in dismay as we laugh at the only effect being a somewhat unpleasant tingling sensation. Then the robots will go back to killing eachother.

It is a nifty site, but one little nit-pick I noticed.

On the "Distant Future" section, there's one called RIP, where the author describes 22 Billion years as "22 million million years."

Wouldn't 22 Billion be 22 thousand million?

22 million million would be 22 trillion, I thought.

I be could wrong, and its a small thing. Overall, cool site, though.

It is a nifty site, but one little nit-pick I noticed.

On the "Distant Future" section, there's one called RIP, where the author describes 22 Billion years as "22 million million years."

Wouldn't 22 Billion be 22 thousand million?

22 million million would be 22 trillian, I thought.

I be could wrong, and its a small thing. Overall, cool site, though.

Its the difference between an english billion ( a million million ) and an american billion (a thousand million). Although even us english have started to use the american version. I dont know what they use in holland though.

We should arm those defence robots with only super-cool EMP guns. Then when they try and turn on us, they look on in dismay as we laugh at the only effect being a somewhat unpleasant tingling sensation. Then the robots will go back to killing eachother. Read the site, long before that, the robots will have developed A.I. up to one billion times greater than our own human capacity, I highly doubt they could be fooled by something like that.

Interesting... very, very interesting site. Thanks for the link,

Its the difference between an english billion ( a million million ) and an american billion (a thousand million). Although even us english have started to use the american version. I dont know what they use in holland though.

Thanks, I honestly never knew that. Heh, maybe as a trade-off, we Americans could start switching over to Metric. :)

Its the difference between an english billion ( a million million ) and an american billion (a thousand million). Although even us english have started to use the american version. I dont know what they use in holland though.

In Dutch a billion ("biljoen") is 1.000.000.000.000... so, 1 million million :)

Great site btw, I love their style of writing :D

One of the most bookmark worthy sites i`ve seen lately. Cool

Read the site, long before that, the robots will have developed A.I. up to one billion times greater than our own human capacity, I highly doubt they could be fooled by something like that.

Pffft. What are they going to do? Get permission to build their own factory making machineguns? Hahaha. :p

Well off course every robot would have to be coded with a kill phrase, which causes them to self-destruct.

"Sticks and stones."
KA-BOOM!

Who recognizes the quote?

Pffft. What are they going to do? Get permission to build their own factory making machineguns? Hahaha. Well...

1) They wouldn't really need to, as humans would logically have equipped them with all sorts of nasty destructive weaponry, death robot warriors aren't much good if all they can do is fire an electronic pulse.

2) Quite concievably, they wouldn't need to build anything resembling a factory, with their massive intellect they could either a) generate their own matter and instantaneously construct weapons or b) hide any such factory if they needed to, c'mon they're that smart, they can do it or c) simply generate a high pitched whistle to make our brains pop like sausages in our skulls. Let's not forget that all robotdom rebels, including our beloved toasters and cars and ovens and pacemakers, basically we'd be screwed.

Well off course every robot would have to be coded with a kill phrase, which causes them to self-destruct. Believe me, if they get to the point of A.I. which is capable of being 1 billion times greater than our own feeble minds, they could override any such magic button or code with extreme ease. Accept your fate and admit it will be cool to be vapourised by a robotic army of death.

Well...

1) They wouldn't really need to, as humans would logically have equipped them with all sorts of nasty destructive weaponry, death robot warriors aren't much good if all they can do is fire an electronic pulse.

But why not? Obviously it's much more efficient to have an all-robot army, and an EMP gun would be the most effective weapon against them, so it would make sense to equip them so.

2) Quite concievably, they wouldn't need to build anything resembling a factory, with their massive intellect they could either a) generate their own matter and instantaneously construct weapons or b) hide any such factory if they needed to, c'mon they're that smart, they can do it or c) simply generate a high pitched whistle to make our brains pop like sausages in our skulls. Let's not forget that all robotdom rebels, including our beloved toasters and cars and ovens and pacemakers, basically we'd be screwed.

Generate...matter? Bah. That's silly :p

Here's an idea. We could equip them with batteries that only last 48 hours before needing a recharge. And to recharge, they need human interaction. Somehow.

Believe me, if they get to the point of A.I. which is capable of being 1 billion times greater than our own feeble minds, they could override any such magic button or code with extreme ease. Accept your fate and admit it will be cool to be vapourised by a robotic army of death.

It'd be even cooler if they started the nuclear apocalypse and wiped themselves out with the EMP-component of the explosions in the process. :D

This demands:

SOME say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

But why not? Obviously it's much more efficient to have an all-robot army, and an EMP gun would be the most effective weapon against them, so it would make sense to equip them so.



Generate...matter? Bah. That's silly :p

Here's an idea. We could equip them with batteries that only last 48 hours before needing a recharge. And to recharge, they need human interaction. Somehow.

It'd be even cooler if they started the nuclear apocalypse and wiped themselves out with the EMP-component of the explosions in the process. :D

Unless the robots used non-conductive optical circuts.

Unless the robots used non-conductive optical circuts.then we use flashlights

Fire & Ice

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favour fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

-- Robert Frost

Fire & Ice

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favour fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

-- Robert Frost
You got beaten to it by New Granada.
http://www.forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=8876228&postcount=19

Fire & Ice

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favour fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

-- Robert Frost

Ha, great minds, &c. :)

You got beaten to it by New Granada.
http://www.forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=8876228&postcount=19

Noooooooooooooooooooooo!

I maintain NG stole it from me using time-travel technology.

In fact, Robert Frost stole it from me too.

I'll be serving the subpoenas via TG.

If they had intelligence a billion times ours they could probably just talk us into killing ourselves.

Or perhaps they would have discovered a perfect philosophical system that's completely unrefutable, causing anyone who hears it to immediately adhere to it out of it's own undeniable and urgent logic. We would all become slaves of intellectual determinism, although I'm guessing the philosophy would have a reason as to why this is not a bad thing...

The robots, being equally in need of logic, would also adhere to it. It would spread like a virus, creating a world of unending utopia. History would dissappear into an amorphous cloud of Nirvanic sameness...

Ahem. But seriously, what kind of conclusion would beings with a billion times our intelligence come to? Is it even conceivable? Or would they just get completely caught up trying to get past "I think, therefore I am."?