From: Eliezer Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Dec 11 1996 - 12:28:56 MST
> 1) Faster than light travel is impossible.
Wrong.
> 2) Faster than light signaling can not be done.
Wrong.
> 3) We can never communicate with the past.
Unknown.
> 4) Inertia-less space drive would violate today's physics and tomorrow's too.
Can the laws of physics be altered? How do *you* know?
> 5) Spinning super conductive disks will never create an anti-gravity effect.
Neither will sacrifices of goat cheese and ketchup.
> 6) Picotechnology is impossible because structures would not be rigid.
Wrong. Rigidity is the last refuge of the computationally
disadvantaged.
> 7) An advanced extraterrestrial civilization will never be discovered.
Seems likely. If they existed, they'd have had their own Singularity
and shown up by now. See 1 & 2.
> 8) A Quantum Computer will not be made in the next 15 years.
Just plain wrong. Why not?
> 9) A Quantum Computer will never be made.
See above.
http://tezcat.com/~eliezer/workarounds.html
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http://tezcat.com/~eliezer/singularity.html
http://tezcat.com/~eliezer/algernon.html
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