Re: Arab World Stunned by Baghdad's Fall

From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Wed Apr 16 2003 - 13:35:17 MDT

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    Charles Hixon opined:
    <<Sentient machines?  We can hope and work for Friendly AI.  But please
    remember that others have other ideas, and we may end up with Fiendish AI.-
    -- Charles Hixson >>

    I am not among the small crowd (small?) that seeks paradise in pumping up
    computer hardware and software into some kind of uber form. I don't see that
    purpose in that. I do seek and cheer for, things of a more prosaic nature,
    like developments that improve human health, better energy sources,
    cosmological discoveries that inspire, programmable materials, and the like.
    The most easiest path of technical development does indeed seem to be
    computer electronics; and does have its benefits, but for improving the human
    condition (and transhuman condition) we must also look elsewhere.



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