[extropy-chat] Original Sin was Bioethics Essay

[Dirk Bruere]

Lifespan Pharma Inc. wrote:

> The Avantguardian wrote:
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>>--- Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at mac.com> wrote:
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>>>On May 23, 2005, at 7:03 PM, Dirk Bruere wrote:
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>>>>Samantha Atkins wrote:
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>>>It is not holy writ
>>>or directly  
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>>>>>supported by  such.
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>>>>Of course it is.
>>>>We allegedly got kicked out of Eden for doing just
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>>>that and now you  
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>>>>want to compound the sin...
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>>Actually it WAS holy writ that knowledge was the
>>Original Sin that got us kicked out of Eden. 
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> We already have radical greens espousing the end of civilization and 
> "back to nature".
> Of course they use the internet to organize and communicate their "ism".
> http://www.greenanarchy.org  is one I check out every year or 2.
>
> However there is perhaps room for some combination of fundamentalists
> of various religeons reacting to AI, Total Information Awareness , 
> human bioengineering
> that endangers the fundamentals of older "theisms" to form a new
> Anti-Technology Theism.   Of course this would accomplish one good thing
> that is uniting diverse religeons  into one theism instead of always 
> fighting each other
> over who is more "right with god".
>
> Perhaps the religeous Armageddon and Christ and Anti-christ might be 
> portrayed by theisits
> as development of a religeous "god's AI"  set out to destroy all other 
> Heathen AI's.????

So far AI has avoided major political-religious complications, probably 
because it does not exist in a form that challenges overall Human 
supremacy. Of course, by the time such an AI does exist it will be too 
late for anyone to do anything. Hence IMO its a non-issue as far as we 
are concerned.

-- 
Dirk

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