[extropy-chat] Declaration of Very Fast Independence

[Dirk Bruere]

Damien Broderick wrote:

> At 12:05 AM 11/28/2004 -0500, Dan Clemmensen wrote:
>
> >By the time the political/contsitutional/societal consensus
> >can react to the emergence of an AI, the AI may very well
> >have decide to take over some aspect (or all aspects) of the
> >political/economic system.
>
> An outcome that seems to me very possible (in view of Fermi) is 
> summarized nicely by Ken MacLeod, in his new novel Newton's Wake:
>
> < Once you reach singularity, there are further singularities within 
> it, faster and faster, and in very short order the intelligences 
> involved have fucked off out of our universe, or lost interest in 
> it--we don't know. >
>
>
It seems very likely that there is much more of interest as we head down 
to the Planck scale than there is as we head out towards the galactic.

-- 
Dirk

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