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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Tara Maya via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] My review of Eliezer Yudkowsky's new book<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…Our entire lifestyle as humans will transform in response and many will gnash their teeth and cry aloud in wrath and woe but the humans who create human-friendly AI that protects and provides for their own survival will be winners of the the next round of the Human Technology Trap. Tara Maya <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Well written Tara, thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>The mountain climber hangs his life on his ropes and anchors. If those fail, he knows the drill: yaaaaaahhhhCRUNCH. Game waaaay over man.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>My friend the pilot who I wrote about recently, who flew down to Haiti in his little C152 in the pre-dawn hours would routinely hang his life on his equipment. He was an emergency delivery pilot by trade: if they had an organ tissue match, they would call on him to fly it to the patient on short notice, often at the big research hospital in Gainsville Florida. He spoke of flying not in a straight line (over Ocala National forest from where I lived) but rather always keeping a road in sight so that he wasn’t hanging his life on his engine. But every time he did a Santa run to Haiti, he was out over the sea. Anything failed out there, adios amigo, very little chance of survival.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>We as a modern society have hung our lives on our equipment, and it is outrageously complicated. Easy to forsee something failing, taking something else down, which takes two or three other things down, and the system just fails. It is brittle, and some of the failure modes have already happened, the rolling blackouts around here we had and so forth. How hard is that to foresee? Terrorist attack on the power grid or even communication system, how hard it that to predict?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>A book that impacted the hell outta me in my childhood was Herman Khan’s Thinking About the Unthinkable. It was nuclear war scenarios and semi-plausible ideas for survival. It convinced me that there is a chance of survival in that, but it takes effort, guts, planning and persistence. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Most survivors will just give up and die in nuclear war, but I will not. Likewise, if a singularity takes away technology, I don’t intend to just give up and die. I will at least damn well try to survive and pull my family thru it, even if we emerge with 1850s technology. I don’t cotton to the notion of helpless surrender. The unthinkable is thinkable, and profitable perhaps to think it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>