[extropy-chat] singularity conference at stanford

[Russell Wallace]

On 5/15/06, Metavalent Stigmergy <metavalent at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/15/06, Russell Wallace <russell.wallace at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >  I never thought I'd wish for the day when the "need a fantasy to latch
> > onto" crowd just waited for the mothership to beam them up. Being a
> > pessimist only means _most_ of your surprises are pleasant ones.
>
> I don't quite follow your comment, Russel.  If you are saying that
> increasingly impressive life extension is a fantasy, or that the
> continual improvement of AI is a fantasy, I'd be interested to learn
> what data or personal observations you use to form those particular
> characterizations.  Not saying you're wrong, just interested in how
> you got there.


Your not following is more my fault than yours, since it wasn't terribly
clear (spare time to write posts when I'm _not_ exhausted isn't amazingly
thick on the ground, alas), but I'll try and expand on it and explain my
reasoning under a separate subject line.
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