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Because we really don't know how to emulate "thinking." Some overconfident people think they can, but it's a much harder problem than making an ACID-compliant relational database.

Also, because we tend to forget that technological innovation that takes a few decades, or a century, is extremely fast in a historical context.

Our ancestors aren't going to care if we have self-driving cars in 2020, 2080, or 2120.




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