[ExI] singularity summit on foxnews

Stefano Vaj stefano.vaj at gmail.com
Fri Sep 21 15:05:28 UTC 2007


On 9/18/07, Christopher Weeks <clweeks at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/18/07, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
>
> > If we're lucky, we will become our own successors. If we're less lucky,
> > we will give rise to our successors, and then get left behind. That
> > would suck,
>
>
> Why would that suck?  Isn't that what always happens?
>

Well, one may deem it a more comforting idea that he will become one's own
successor rather than he is simply going simply give rise to it, even though
most of the difference may consist in a nuance in a metaphor... :-)

Stefano Vaj
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