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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2> </FONT><FONT size=3>Robert Bradbury
Wrote:</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><STRONG><FONT size=3>> I
believe the production of an AGI spells</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><STRONG><FONT size=3>> the
extinction of humanity. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
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style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p><STRONG><FONT
size=3> </FONT></STRONG></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><STRONG><FONT size=3>Me
too.<o:p></o:p></FONT></STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p><STRONG><FONT
size=3> </FONT></STRONG></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><STRONG><FONT size=3>> Why
should I expend intellectual energy,</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><STRONG><FONT
size=3>> time, money, etc. in a doomed species?
<o:p></o:p></FONT></STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p><STRONG><FONT
size=3> </FONT></STRONG></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><STRONG><FONT size=3>If you don’t
want to develop an AI somebody else certainly will, there is too much money and
power involved for such a possibility to be ignored, not to mention the
adrenalin high creating such a godlike being would bring. And if you’re the
first to make an AI you would have more control (very small but larger than
zero) over future events than the person who came in second. It may also give
these developers some comfort to know that even if they or their children do not
survive their mind children will.<o:p></o:p></FONT></STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p><STRONG><FONT
size=3> </FONT></STRONG></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><STRONG><FONT size=3>> those of
you who have had and/or are investing</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><STRONG><FONT size=3>> in
children are potentially pursuing a pointless endeavor.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p><STRONG><FONT
size=3> </FONT></STRONG></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><STRONG><FONT size=3>Sucks doesn’t
it? Still, things aren’t completely hopeless, just almost hopeless. If you or
your biological children have any wish to survive they must shed the silly
superstitions regarding identity and consciousness that is epidemic in society
and even infects most members of this list. If they can do that then there would
be no reason not to upload and engage in pedal to the metal upgrading, and if
they are also very lucky they might survive.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p><STRONG><FONT
size=3> </FONT></STRONG></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><STRONG><FONT size=3>> And so,
we must present transhumanism </FONT></STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><STRONG><FONT size=3>> as an
"Extinction Level Event"<o:p></o:p></FONT></STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p><STRONG><FONT
size=3> </FONT></STRONG></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><STRONG><FONT
size=3>Yes.<o:p></o:p></FONT></STRONG></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p><STRONG><FONT
size=3> </FONT></STRONG></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><STRONG><FONT size=3> >
are willing to deal with thiat?<o:p></o:p></FONT></STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p><STRONG><FONT
size=3> </FONT></STRONG></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><STRONG><FONT size=3>Well, it’s
not like we had any choice over the
matter.<o:p></o:p></FONT></STRONG></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p><STRONG><FONT
size=3> </FONT></STRONG></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><STRONG><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>John K
Clark<o:p></o:p></FONT></STRONG></SPAN></P>
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