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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>On Behalf Of </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>James Clement<br><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] 23andme again<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Anders Sandberg <<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" target="_blank">anders@aleph.se</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>>>…</span>Great story! And a good example of how technology is making the past transparent in ways it couldn't foresee<span style='color:#1F497D'>…</span>If you want to keep secrets from the future you really have to work on it. <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>>…</span>Coming soon to an AI near you: it will likely be possible in the near future to create a very accurate simulated (not emulated) prediction machine for each of us based on our search history, email history, social network (written and photographic) and credit card histories, that can fairly accurately predict what choices you'd make in given circumstances. <span style='color:#1F497D'>…</span>James<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>James what I really want is some kind of AI at the hardware store. Then when I get there it reminds me of what it was I came down there for.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>If we invent brain prosthetics, it would free our minds from the mundane, which allows us to focus our creative intellectual skills on cool interesting stuff, such as inventing brain prosthetics, which would free our minds from the mundane.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>>…I did FTDNA a while back and got a very strong Y-DNA match with a guy whose surname wasn't Cunningham… We're first cousins. John Cunningham<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Well now let us think about this. John’s cousin suddenly finds out he is not genetically related to his own beloved legal grandfather. He now wants to know everything he can find out about his genetic grandfather, what medical conditions he had, what and who he did in his life, who his newly-discovered genetic cousins are, possibly who his parent’s genetic half siblings are. Does John’s cousin now lose interest in the family reunion? Or does he show up and tell what he knows? Does he crash the party when the genetic cousins have their family reunion, and if so, does he talk? Or just show up saying he is a friend of the family? What if he has some mannerism that grandpa had, a quirky facial feature, a way of walking, so that all the little old ladies present figure it out? Little old ladies are good at that for some strange reason.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>However, it could be that plenty of the affected people don’t want this information known. Grandma would be high on the list of those who would not be pleased at her grandson’s detective work. Perhaps she mended her ways right after she discovered her pregnancy, quickly married her long-time boyfriend (not the embryo’s father), gave birth to a robust 9 pound “preemie” seven months after the wedding (the poor little thing placed in the incubator by the local nurses with a sense of humor and charity), became a paragon of virtue at the local Methodist church, and doesn’t cut any slack to the local harlots.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>