[ExI] hard science

[Tomaz Kristan]

William!

True, there are plenty of possible configurations, architecture of minds
who are even self aware. Some are non-problematic for themselves and for
others.

We should concentrate on those.


On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 6:49 PM, William Flynn Wallace
<foozler83 at gmail.com>wrote:

> I am convinced that our present human personality repertoire is only a
> minute subset of all viable mind designs. Therefore, once the technological
> limitations to deeply modifying minds are gone, there will be an adaptive
> radiation of mind designs driven by evolutionary pressures within the
> social computational substrate that will generate a variety of mind types,
> and few of them will be "normal" by our present human standards.  (rafa)
>
> There is no evolution anymore affecting humans, except perhaps in 3rd
> world countries.  We have taken over evolution and will bend it to our
> will, by uploading, eugenics and all the rest.
>
> I am interested in just what kinds of minds you are contemplating.  We
> have thousands of adjectives describing human behavior but only five have
> reliable heritability (plus IQ).  What would you add?  billw
>
>
> On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 7:12 AM, Tomaz Kristan <protokol2020 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> > Sorry, statements like that are forbidden.    ;)
>>
>> I know. ;)
>>
>>
>> On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 2:09 PM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Tomaz Kristan wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>> > Absolute freedom is not possible to maintain.
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>> Sorry, statements like that are forbidden.    ;)
>>>
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