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On 31/03/2020 17:26, John K Clark wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 11:56 AM
Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a
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0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><span
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style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>The
solution is simply to write about uploads that are not more
intelligent than you are. Which is what Greg Egan did</i></blockquote>
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<div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4">That's a good
solution if you want to write a story that bipedal hominids
could read with understanding and enjoyment, in fact it's the
only possible solution a fiction writer has, but it's not
realistic. It's called a singularity for a reason, beyond a
certain point human imagination and intelligence just isn't
good enough to figure out how things would really be. </font></div>
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Agreed. Not realistic. But that doesn't mean not worth doing. The
bioluddites don't know what will happen after a singularity any more
than anyone else does, but that doesn't stop them from making their
panic-mongering doom-laden predictions. It shouldn't stop us from
making optimistic projections. Or good, entertaining and positive
stories. Nobody needs to figure out how things will really be, they
need to try and steer things in the direction they want them to go.<br>
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Ben Zaiboc</pre>
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