The fact that you can even say what you’re saying speaks to such a level of naivety that reasoning with you is a series of levels far away from anything possible. Have you considered why even condensing material on a molecular level such as coal to diamond changes its properties so dramatically? Have you considered the mere fact that splitting a single atom releases enough energy to create a blast on the scale of an atomic bomb? You’re talking in fantasy where you simply want one thing without considering the infinite implications of the surroundings or why everything exists the way it does in the first place from trillions of years ago all the way until today. It’s extremely ignorant.

Even ignoring your complete lack of understanding in theoretical reasoning, on a practical standpoint, understanding does not give any means to physically accomplishing any of what you’re talking about. Even if you broke the bounds of natural occurrence with scientific method, you would also have to simultaneously create an environment where it is allowed to exist. Our universe is predicated on major and minor forces that all other existence adheres to. You’re trying to justify a manipulation in isolation without considering that everything and anything is in a dimension of constant motion and transfer of energy.

AlphaGo will already be a decade old in a couple of years where it originally beat Lee Sedol. AlphaGo Zero smashed it’s predecessor 100 - 0 games. AlphaZero is considered the world’s top player. How does judging AI on simple training modules really give any perspective here?

His argument is more philosophical. Sort of depends as I would argue people are already doing this by living vicariously through social media and that would slightly warp the general idea of “real life”, but only marginally and not entirely.

As far as this being some conspiracy as an attack on our idealogy as free thinking humans, one might expect the next step to be some immersed first person virtuality to isolate us, when in practicality it could very well just be more algorithms dictating our sociological structure to a point of generic and superficial existence. No advancement in tech needed.

To answer your question more directly for what it actually is asking, advancement in processing speed for computing is still plateaued. You might have heard of the great advancement in the change to silicon chips. While this material was a major boon to processors, the capability eventually hits a maximum value. This capability was further boosted through technological advancements in transitors, but Moore’s law is also subject to physical limits, which we are nearing currently.

Silicon has theoretical replacements that are much more conductive, such as cubic boron arsenide, though the material itself still has the problem of being viably manufactured at all, let alone at scale, as opposed to silicon being one of the most abundant elements on Earth.

This basically means we are not getting any major leaps in processing power without a substantial discovery and there is no real time estimate for that to my knowledge.

Instead of discounting it for what barriers may exist, what incentives is there to do so?

The richest percent is a phrase used all the time to refer to those with the majority of the world’s money, yet they have no desire to create their own country, and I doubt they or anyone able to form a country are impeded by what borders exist for regular people.

Not quite because the opening was not matching the tone of the overall film, but likewise to misjudging it completely, I can tell you that many people left the theater after the opening of Bruno unknowing to just how far it was willing to go.

The last statement about what the FDA believes can be substantiated by the fact that whatever risk and association the vaccine has to something like PE, covid’s values are magnitudes more, right?

I’m wondering as well, that certainly doesn’t look like a whole quart of cream was added.