Fools, was Re: "Enlightenment" singularity

From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Sat Dec 16 2000 - 22:08:43 MST


You are doing "us and them." You were calling anyone who disagreed with
your POV a fool. I was asking you to consider some things, including the
possibility that someone could appear to agree with what you said and
wind up doing a bad job of it; and whether that might constitute
something to be concerned with. This has everything to do with labeling.
I also asked about people who run their lives on fear, the way a lot of
them seem to. You plan to counsel three billion people?

It appears that instead of addressing my questions, you have merely
rearranged your prejudices. I do it too, sometimes.

"J. R. Molloy" wrote:
>
> From: "Michael M. Butler" <butler@comp-lib.org>
> > What are those who fear the arrival of anything someone with an agenda
> > might have labeled "super-intelligence"?
> >
> > What of those whose emotional ground of being is largely fear?
>
> Those whose emotional ground of being is largely fear ask this question?
> We can discuss my counseling fee offline.
>
> If we cannot help but fantasize that a super-intelligence agenda
> substantiates our fears, we clearly have no business trying to create
> super-intelligence. So (obviously), we've chosen other career paths. No
> problem, someone else will do it. This has nothing whatsoever to do with
> labeling. Extropic evolution gets a boost from super-consilience cascading
> into a second Enlightenment. Nothing frightening about that.
>
> Stay hungry,
>
> --J. R.
> 3M TA3
>
> "But then arises the doubt: can the mind of man, which has, as I fully
> believe, been developed from a mind as low as that possessed by the lowest
> animal, be trusted when it draws such grand conclusions?"
> --Charles Darwin



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