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From: Tim Merrigan <tppm@rr.ca.com>
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Subject: Re: Things I never thought would appear
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 05:33:20 -0700
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On 10/12/2024 5:56 AM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
> Evelyn C. Leeper <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Keith F. Lynch wrote:
>>> Nobody has come up with a task that a person could do but that no
>>> computer could ever do.
> 
>> Make a baby?
> 
> I'm not convinced that computers couldn't do that.
> 
> To reach other solar systems may require trips of tens of thousands of
> years.  Robot space probes could be programmed to grow human colonists
> if and when they get to a habitable planet.
> 
> And even if computers couldn't do that, my point is that it's not
> something someone is typically willing to pay someone to do.

Surrogates?

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