[extropy-chat] Original Sin was Bioethics Essay

Mike Lorrey mlorrey at yahoo.com
Wed May 25 00:35:51 UTC 2005


--- Dirk Bruere <dirk at neopax.com> wrote:
> 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.

An athlete who had only been a sprinter for 6 months outran all but the
fastest sprinters at the Athens Olympics this past year. How? He was a
double amputee with gazelle-like artificial running limbs specially
designed for sprinting. Several single amputee runners at the
paralympics protested his technological advantage....

Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com


		
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