在某些情况下，我们会幻想自己的先人又复活了。 “一个动物到它最喜欢觅食地点，看到有个食肉动物一在那里的迹象， 但不是食肉动物本身，可能是上次（下次）在那里站岗。

The animal that goes to a favorite food-foraging location and sees signs that a predator was there - but not the predator itself - may be on guard the next time.

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我们谈论的不是车迷爱好者的幻想，实际上有人不辞辛苦地追踪并向联邦储备委员会申请购买实物车辆。

We aren't talking about fanboy fantasies here, but actual cars that someone went to the trouble of tracking down and applying to the feds for.

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但是那些负责人工智能的宣传的人们就不这么谨慎了，他们就是喜欢看到我们对于机器会思考的幻想而感到惊讶和害怕。

But those in charge of the artificial intelligence hype are not so careful and they delight in exciting us and frightening us with the fiction of a machine that can think.

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Now we might agree that this's a reasonable enough fantasy of female invulnerability but of course there is nothing in our sad experience with sexual menace that actually bears the theory behind this fantasy out.

现在我们可能会同意,这里有个很合理的幻想，即女性不会受到伤害,但当然，在这个幻想背后，性骚扰的遭受,使没有东西支持这个理论。

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