> Which team should one join if one believes artilects are dangerous as
> all hell but which cannot be stopped indefinitely, therefore they must
> be carefully developed by responsible and ethical people?
> Since government has (already) taken the side of the "Cosmists," and will
> try to both develop and contain AI and SI, I think it most extropic to make
> friends with ultra-intelligent machines now (neo-Luddite alarmists
> notwithstanding).
How do you want to do that? Do you, like, know any ultra-intelligent machines personally? ;-)