During the Q&A session, one gets an idea why Steven Meyer might have "kicked his butt" in a debate. Peter Ward is really bad at answering questions. He looks nervous. He provides non-answers to perfectly valid questions. I'm not saying that I could do better. But I'm not labeled as a Professor of Biology and Earth and Space Sciences. And I'm not certain that, with some preparation and practice, I might not do better.
There is a way out. Not for Homo sapiens, but for intelligence. Evolution spent 3.5 billion years developing these brains of ours. And in just the 63 years since ENIAC, only < 0.000002% of the time evolution required, we're a substantial portion of the way there, despite the fact that progress in AI has not been as fast as we predicted. Homo sapiens designs its successor, and then the successor designs its successor. And the non soft & squishy successors don't care about hard cold planets.
intelligent design, is so unintelligent.
quarkmuffin37 1 year ago
During the Q&A session, one gets an idea why Steven Meyer might have "kicked his butt" in a debate. Peter Ward is really bad at answering questions. He looks nervous. He provides non-answers to perfectly valid questions. I'm not saying that I could do better. But I'm not labeled as a Professor of Biology and Earth and Space Sciences. And I'm not certain that, with some preparation and practice, I might not do better.
sbergman27 1 year ago
There is a way out. Not for Homo sapiens, but for intelligence. Evolution spent 3.5 billion years developing these brains of ours. And in just the 63 years since ENIAC, only < 0.000002% of the time evolution required, we're a substantial portion of the way there, despite the fact that progress in AI has not been as fast as we predicted. Homo sapiens designs its successor, and then the successor designs its successor. And the non soft & squishy successors don't care about hard cold planets.
sbergman27 1 year ago