[extropy-chat] forward from keith

[spike]

Something was causing this post to bounce.  When I forward, it loses
indentation, so I don't know which was written by Keith and which by Alex
Bokov.  What ever happened to him?  Anyone know Alex?

spike



At 11:15 AM 5/21/2006 -0500, alexboko wrote:

So you think singularity is inevitable? Read this brief essay.

http://home.tiac.net/~cri/1996/making.html

Reprinted from Personal Notes #7, 1977.
This page was last updated August 11, 1996.


It explains IMO a very plausible alternative scenario for what can
happen, more succinctly than I have managed to so far, and perhaps in
sufficiently science-fictiony terms that even a transhumanist might give
it some consideration before dismissing it as leftist propoganda. Which
it absolutely is not.

He leaves out a massive reduction in population, on the order of 90%, and
the likely destruction of a substantial fraction of the infrastructure in
the wars you can expect.

It surely wouldn't be an Extropian future.

Keith Henson