I’m delighted to see her, and I can see her quite well thanks to my new lenses and corneal stem cell transplants. My 90 yo brain doesn’t work that well, but my eyes are better than they’ve ever been.<\/div>\n
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She’s lovely to my eyes. Early middle-aged, asian with a dazzling smile I work for. If my brain were forty years younger I’d realize she looks quite a bit like my daughter.<\/div>\n
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Katie gives me a big smile. She chats about my medications and exercise program. I’ve been working hard — I don’t want to disappoint her. That part of the conversation goes quickly. We have time to chat. I know Katie works for my health care insurance program, but we always have time to talk about my life and especially about her life.<\/div>\n
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If I had a younger brain, I’d wonder why Katie has so much time to talk. But I don’t.<\/div>\n
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Katie is sad today. It’s not the first time, but this time she opens up. Her son is ailing. He reminds me of my own younger boy. I’ve got to help. Katie resists, but I insist on authorizing a credit transfer …<\/div>\n
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This is so<\/i> going to happen. Even if we don’t get Skynet<\/a> before 2050, we’ll definitely have three dimensional avatars that can pass the Turing test<\/a> of a lonely mildly-demented 90 year old. They’ll provide many services — such as encouraging medication compliance. The real return, however, will be on launching massive phishing<\/a> attacks against billions of people.<\/div>\n
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See also:<\/div>\n
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- Slouching towards Skynet<\/a> (Russian slutbots in 2007).<\/li>\n
- Evolving Skynet by Gwap (Nick Carr)<\/a><\/li>\n
- The evolution of comment spam – from parasite to symbiote?<\/a><\/li>\n
- Google’s Goals: Skynet 1.0<\/a><\/li>\n
- The cat brain simulator. Game over?<\/a><\/li>\n
- Rat brain flies plane — organic neural network<\/a> (2004)<\/li>\n
- Aaronson critiques Kurzweil and the 2045 Singularity<\/a><\/li>\n
- IEEE – The Singularity Issue<\/a><\/li>\n
- The Economist predicts an early Singularity<\/a><\/li>\n
- All the vulnerable people: eFraud, aging and special needs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Evolving Skynet by Gwap (Nick Carr)<\/a><\/li>\n
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