[extropy-chat] Bluff and the Darwin award

[Samantha Atkins]

On May 16, 2006, at 5:36 AM, Russell Wallace wrote:

> On 5/16/06, Heartland <velvet977 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> It sounds to me like you don't have much faith in hard take-off. Is  
> this correct?
>
> In the same way that I don't have much faith in dowsing, perpetual  
> motion machines and God needing a lot of money sent to a certain  
> box number, yes.


Surely you jest.  Given a >human AI capable of self-improvement a  
hard take-off is at least possible.

- samantha

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