[extropy-chat] Superintelligence

[Dirk Bruere]

On 2/16/06, Russell Wallace <russell.wallace at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 2/16/06, Dirk Bruere <dirk.bruere at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > http://www.transhumanism.org/index.php/th/print/293/
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> A fun story, but citing it as evidence that a superintelligence is going
> to destroy the world is like citing H.G. Wells as evidence of intelligent
> life on Mars.


Of course I'm not citing it as evidence, but I am citing it as an
illustration of a strong possible outcome.
Given, of course, that AI is ever developed, which itself is an article of
faith.

Dirk
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