<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/21/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brandon Reinhart</b> <<a href="mailto:transcend@extropica.com">transcend@extropica.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> There are plenty of singularitarians that see the singularity as a time of<br>immense risk to the survival of our biosphere.<br><br>Actually, I'd adjust this to say probably all singularitarians believe this.<br>I doubt anyone thinks we'll get a free pass to an ideal future.
<br>Singularitarians who really grasp the potential of strong AI combined with<br>nanotech are scared as hell at the possibility of doing things wrong.<br><br>So why wait for the Sword to fall? That's part of where the activist
<br>imperative comes from. (Or so it seems to me, I'm still in the early stages<br>of developing this point of view.)<br><br></blockquote></div><br>
I would also say that we are living in a chaotic period of history
(unlike, say, the Cold War years) and that any effort we put in now
will be amplified instead of damped as time goes on.<br>
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Dirk<br>