[ExI] Surviving the Singularity

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat



 

Cool thx Ben.

 

Fun aside from your list of good things, I noticed a big wait-what moment:

 

 

 

>…If we're lucky, and the AIs are sneaky enough, there won't be any chaos, and no survival strategies will be necessary, we'll just notice things getting mysteriously better and better. Wars ending, restrictive governments easing up on their tyranny until it's gone, economies booming for no apparent reason, Afghan women with degrees flying all over the globe, nobody being beheaded in Saudi Arabia, global warming going into reverse, communism and religions just peacefully evaporating, that sort of thing…  Ben

 

 

One of these things is not like the other…

 

Back when I was a callow youth, five decades before I became a callow geezer, it wasn’t clear if the planet was warming or cooling.  There was debate, but the 1973 Soylent Green original settled it: it seemed Hollywood consensus was going toward warming.  We heaved a sigh of relief, even those of us from where it is warm most of the time, Florida.

 

We recognized back then, even as callow youth, that warming isn’t going to kill us.  But global cooling is dangerous as all hell, because it shortens growing season rather than lengthens it.  We chilled out in the promised future warmth, which never quite materialized, but then we found out the time scale on that isn’t 12 years, it’s more like three centuries.

 

If global warming went into reverse, that roaring sound would be billions of buttholes slamming shut, realizing where that cooling could lead, even a little of that.  

 

spike

 

 
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