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- RHMac, on 07/03/2009, -25/+476Hawking is a bad ass, and far be it for me, a C+ university student to contradict him, but it seems to me that we're heading more in this direction...
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2682654/idiocracy_op ... - ninephoenixes, on 07/03/2009, -7/+250"Although It has taken **** sapiens"...
lolwordfilters - FitteMas, on 07/03/2009, -4/+179I hope he gets to see the singularity, and finally escape his biological body
- anthropodeus, on 07/03/2009, -3/+175"there are about 50,000 new books published in the English language each year, containing of the order of a hundred billion bits of information. Of course, the great majority of this information is garbage, and no use to any form of life."
Stephen Hawking: pwning english majors since 2009 - dtr300, on 07/03/2009, -5/+145Self-directed evolution is here. Proceed with caution.
- oneofmanysteves, on 07/03/2009, -3/+107If you're not logged in words are automatically filtered.
- wondertwins, on 07/03/2009, -3/+88Why do you hate him? He's probably the smartest mother ***** alive on the face of the earth and can kill you with his equations.
- MrSkills, on 07/03/2009, -3/+88But the very fact that someone like Hawking is of such importance, when in another age he would have been unable to contribute to society even if he had survived, demonstrates how 'external evolution' has come to rival 'internal' for importance in the modern world. So we may lose out biologically, but our civilization still gains.
Oh, and your comment is sailing dangerously close to endorsing eugenics :/ - mysql101, on 07/03/2009, -22/+101I guess I'm the only one who thinks that we are regressing instead of advancing. Natural selection no longer plays an important role in civilized countries. Biological errors are passed on to children because of modern day drugs and medical care.
- e36wheelman, on 07/03/2009, -7/+81Someone hasn't been reading XKCD.
- RegularUser, on 07/03/2009, -4/+71He is rolling in the right direction.
- smrekar, on 07/03/2009, -6/+64"I am extremely interested" "it's kind of a hard thing to explain" "I don't think Stephen Hawking has all his facts right" "He's more of a beginner"
This is the biggest crap comment ever. - ridd1e, on 07/03/2009, -1/+57Ok, since you clicked to see if anyone posted a link, here it is: http://xkcd.com/603/
- inactive, on 07/03/2009, -3/+56The man has a drive to learn.
You're just walkin around with no brain, I mean wtf. Wouldn't you want to just die and get it over with? - jchrome, on 07/03/2009, -6/+56Idiocracy was funny as hell, but the reality is the human race as a whole is getting smarter, better educated and generally more knowledgeable over time. True, there may always be the willfully ignorant, but this is not part of the larger trend. Hawking has it right.
- Maynym, on 07/03/2009, -4/+50"Hello this is Stephen Hawking." "Yes, I'd like to leave a message." "No. This *is* Stephen Hawking."
^_^ - vagrant13, on 07/03/2009, -2/+46OMG why weren't you logged in?!
- SQLserver, on 07/03/2009, -3/+47Wow, you are one sad person. You realize that Hawkings is one of the greatest minds of our generation, and he has contributed to physics nearly at the level Einstein did, right?
- phosphite, on 07/03/2009, -7/+50As a C++ university graduate, I don't feel like I can contradict him either.
- FreckleEars, on 07/03/2009, -7/+40Hawking is a VERY VERY VERY rare case.
FYI one of my best friends is a type 1 diabetic and be believes that he should be dead. He is grateful to modern medicine but he often worries that he is helping spread a fatal condition that SHOULD have been eradicated from the human population several months after it was mutated into existence.
Natural selection is a process in NATURE that gets rid of faulty genes in favor of the stronger genes. By rights, EVERY person who is cured of any ailment puts the human race one more step towards mixing a breed of humans susceptible to a LOT of negative health conditions.
It sounds cruel, and it is; but this is fact and nature. Human modern medicine is ***** up human genetics and evolution. If we go the way we are now, in a couple hundred years most people will have to take medicine just to stay alive and at a much younger age.
I can see how humans can benefit from this external intellectual evolution, but it still does not change that the bodies that are NECESSARY for our existence are becoming more frail. On the REALISTIC note. We have thousands more people in the world that are less in danger of fatal ailments than not. So no matter how much you THINK that humans will benefit more from keeping the frail alive due to the added intelligence, we are only doing more damage. - SamSks, on 07/03/2009, -0/+32I tried being an ass clown once. I put red lipstick on my bung hole, white powder on the cheeks, a big red nose on my coccyx, my scrotum was my chin - like Peter Griffin's on Family Guy, etc...
For some reason, the kid's parents kept calling the cops on me and I ended up in jail Go figure! - aleone31, on 07/03/2009, -8/+38You know Hawking is brilliant, and I have read all of his books. However, a theoretical physicist - cosmologist is not really qualified to make predictions about human evolution. Maybe he has done enough research to speak on this topic but it is outside the realm of his expertise. Why does this matter - because science has been politicized beyond being trustworthy. Most of the peer reviewed journals are more about advertising for government funding then they are about actual science. The scientific method is dead and it is hurting the world in ways we bump into daily. We are living in the era of tabloid science, and we are making decisions that are purely politically supported with no science underpinning.
- elTito, on 07/03/2009, -0/+29What I take away from Kurzweil is that humans have been "externally evolving" since the first time we picked up a tool to do...well, whatever it was we couldn't do without the tool. I don't disagree with Hawking in general, but I don't think we're "entering" anything. Technology, as I see it, is simply a synonym for evolution. We tend to think of them as separate concepts, but really they are one in the same.
Or did I totally not get Kurzweil? - AriaNoelle, on 07/04/2009, -3/+31The smart are getting smarter, but the stupid are reproducing at a far faster pace. This is where the problem is.
- inactive, on 07/03/2009, -11/+37...why do you have Digg set to filter language for you?
- e36wheelman, on 07/03/2009, -2/+28@smrekar
Read his other comments in his profile. I ROFLed. Apparently he's done programming for Google and helped program a thought-controlled wheelchair, but can't find the "jobs" phone number for Facebook, Any noob whose ever looked for a job knows how to get to the "Careers" link of any website.
He also has done more lab work in a few years out of college than most people do in a lifetime, but has no idea who the world's most prominent physicist is.
Also, he has the grammar of a 10 year old. - Thebruce88, on 07/03/2009, -2/+28Huge balls for trolling on the internet. Yeah.
- Neworab, on 07/03/2009, -2/+26Chuck Norris is no longer cool. Didn't you get the memo?
- myempyrean, on 07/03/2009, -0/+23Gattaca?
- JulyZerg, on 07/03/2009, -0/+23It automatically logs me out sometimes. I'm not sure why.
- JoeMondo, on 07/03/2009, -1/+23Evolution is not directional, so there is no regressing.
- tk0680, on 07/03/2009, -0/+20I get the joke, and I laughed, but do you really say "Yes, I'd like to leave a message" to somebody's voicemail?
- Apocalyptic0n3, on 07/03/2009, -0/+20@Mican: Yes he is. Especially considering he has disproven quite a few things that Einstein said.
- JoeMondo, on 07/03/2009, -1/+20There is no such thing as de-evolution because evolution is not directional.
- js281, on 07/03/2009, -0/+19Your theory can still work with what he's saying here. Give it long enough and natural selection may well not matter any more. I think the point is evolution does not have to be internal and biological.
FTA: "Some people would use the term, evolution, only for the internally transmitted genetic material, and would object to it being applied to information handed down externally. But I think that is too narrow a view. We are more than just our genes." - realeskimopimp, on 07/03/2009, -4/+22And one guy acting like his ***** didn't stink.
- Diefree, on 07/03/2009, -6/+24Hmm it's an interesting theory. Self directed evolution would be able to allow us to live longer and better lives but what about those who do not choose to go through the process? That will be a question that must be answered.
- scottsutherland, on 07/03/2009, -2/+20Digg: "STFU jsmithers".
- superdupergome, on 07/03/2009, -0/+17Silly, we only study old books.
- LonelyTylenoL, on 07/03/2009, -1/+18You just got trolled.
DON'T FEED THE TROLL - nowherekido3, on 07/03/2009, -2/+19but lets continue to teach creationism in our schools. science be damned!!
- gizram84, on 07/03/2009, -1/+18obvious troll is obvious
- x0mb13, on 07/03/2009, -0/+16Get your Plasmids here!
- LordVance, on 07/03/2009, -1/+17It's easy in the grand scheme of gene modification to fix. I don't think he meant to imply it was easy in comparison to toasting a bagel, only easy in comparison to other, larger changes of the same manner.
- smrekar, on 07/03/2009, -1/+16I saw this on in a movie. Serenity, I think it was called.
- manyhappyreruns, on 07/03/2009, -2/+17I call it a Hawking Hole.
- foucaultsvac, on 07/03/2009, -2/+17Non-English speakers who have kids are evolutionarily regressive? Please turn off your computer.
- shillabus, on 07/03/2009, -0/+15I guess Digg doesn't want us drinking ***** milk either.
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