Re: transitional thinking

From: Emlyn (emlyn@one.net.au)
Date: Wed Dec 13 2000 - 18:41:24 MST


Justin Corwin wrote:
> > > how will you help me, and my friends like me? what is it that the
future
> > > offers me, and you who see it, and lust after it so keenly?
> > >
> >
> >"Singularity!"
> >
> >I am of course biased :-), for more info see .sig below
> >--
> >Brian Atkins
> >Director, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
> >http://www.singinst.org/
>
> okay, so now that i've read all that website, and the CaTAI, how do i help
> that happen, and where is the effort now?
>
> how many organizations are coding self improving agents/expert
> systems/general intellegences?
>
> and when the singularity does hit, will it be constricted by the
> organization that "owns" it's physical hardware?

No, it's too weird and damned chaotic (from the perspective of people way
too stupid to understand it).

> and how will we keep
> religious memes from forming around the idea of a transcendant machine?

Well spotted! It's happing right now.

Emlyn



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