---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote :
That's great. Being not a product of the British gene pool, I somehow missed "Red Dwarf." :-) I wondered just after posting that maybe I should have added a bit of context as Dwarfism is a bit of an English thing and may not have travelled well. The scouser is the last human alive and is a useless, beer drinking slob. He survived a nuclear blast that wiped out the crew because he was in suspended animation as punishment for smuggling a cat on board. The computer kept him there for 3 million years and now his only company is a hologram of the person he liked least, a creature that evolved from his cat and the robot butler called Kryten - named after The Admirable Crichton from the movie of the same name - Stuck on a mining ship with a senile computer their only hope is to try and find their way back to Earth and not go crazy with boredom. If you see series 1-5 in a box set you won't be disappointed. Maybe.. From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 5:41 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rise of the machines? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote : From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> Or we could bypass human mimicry and build something innately superior in every way. Exciting times. It certainly wouldn't be difficult to design a better intelligence than the pathetic version that humans have displayed over the centuries. The first concept that a halfway decent AI would throw out as the joke it is is religion. Ah, maybe not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm6YnAqPv4w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm6YnAqPv4w
