[ExI] singularity summit on foxnews

Eliezer S. Yudkowsky sentience at pobox.com
Sat Sep 22 02:37:26 UTC 2007


Christopher Weeks wrote:
> On 9/18/07, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org <mailto: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?

Naturalistic fallacy:  Just because it always happens doesn't make it 
okay.

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence



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