[extropy-chat] book review: Radical Evolution

[Adrian Tymes]

--- Dan Clemmensen <dgc at cox.net> wrote:
>  From the review, Joel looks at three possible outcomes: "Heaven," 
> "Hell," and
> "Prevail." Prevail is a non-singularitan middle way that is possible,
> apparently,
> because Joel does not believe in the the other two. Clearly, he
> simply 
> doesn't get
> it.
> 
>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/09/AR2005060901546.html

>From the description of Prevail, it looks like a Singularity driven by
current human desires - and thus probably an "outcome" that would be a
step along the path.  No hard AI so the AIs that exist are uploads, or
at least IA-assisted humans (at first)?  Yes, more and tighter social
bonds could easily be among the early results of that.  After that is
the realm that we tend to speculate about; the point is that the
scenarios are far from incompatible.