[extropy-chat] Declaration of Very Fast Independence

[Damien Broderick]

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. >

Damien Brodrick