<story><title>Reasons 2016 was a great year for humanity</title><url>https://medium.com/future-crunch/99-reasons-why-2016-has-been-a-great-year-for-humanity-8420debc2823#.x7y51rovg</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>arcanus</author><text>Missing the biggest triumph of 2016 by far: the victory by DeepMind&amp;#x27;s machine learning algorith at Go over the greatest living human player.&lt;p&gt;At this time last year it was highly questionable if humans would ever lose to algorithms at games as complex as Go.&lt;p&gt;Now we have reason to be optimistic that an entire class of problems are amenable to solution through computation, and more evidence super-human synthetic intelligence is indeed possible.</text></comment>
<story><title>Reasons 2016 was a great year for humanity</title><url>https://medium.com/future-crunch/99-reasons-why-2016-has-been-a-great-year-for-humanity-8420debc2823#.x7y51rovg</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CiPHPerCoder</author><text>So much of this list was about conservation and environmental issues that it was almost frustrating to filter it out.&lt;p&gt;I have nothing against these topics, but when you dominate your list with one theme and don&amp;#x27;t address that theme in the lede, I reflexively assume the author is attempting to pull the wool over my eyes. There is almost certainly some sampling bias going on, at least.</text></comment>