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	Evolution

EcthelionGenesis

10-20-2009 5:20 PM

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computing, artificial, intelligence, ai, god, knowledge, evolve, evolution

EcthelionGenesis says:

An excerpt from Raymond Kurzweil's "The Law of Accelerating Returns". 2001.

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