From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Wed Aug 27 2003 - 16:23:29 MDT
On Wednesday 27 August 2003 14:09, Charles Hixson wrote:
, and some we won't.
>
> Actually, I consider the onset of the singularity so dangerous, that if
> it weren't for the dangers posed by lunatic govt.s (including ours) that
> I would support doing everything reasonable to slow things down to a
> managable level.
But there is no reasonable way to slow things down and certainly not to a
"managable" level. Today's level shows strong evidence of being unmanagable.
Which modern conveniences, inventions, technologies would you be not only
willing to forgo, but actively and most likely violently suppress? Not
reasonbale indeed. Even if you could peaceabhly roll back the clock, what is
reasonable about all the suffering and death of every single human being in
all too few years, generation upon generation? No, as I see it our only
hope of managablitiy or more generally, survival, is to build something
smarter than us and trustworthy/friendly and/or augment ourselves quickly
enough.
- samantha
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