[extropy-chat] Singularity Blues

Samantha Atkins sjatkins at mac.com
Wed Apr 6 07:41:37 UTC 2005


Olga,

While I could guess what you meant and even agree with such guesses it 
would be good to have you say what you meant a bit more explicitly.

Thanks.

- samantha

On Apr 5, 2005, at 8:57 AM, Olga Bourlin wrote:

> From: Giu1i0 Pri5c0
> > Wil McCarthy ... His views on the forthcoming (or not?) Singularity 
> sre similar to my own: "And while the world on the other side of that 
> event may look very different from the world of today, my personal 
> prediction is that  we'll still see ourselves in it, with habits and 
> motives largely unchanged. The desire for comfort, for wealth, for 
> entertainment and novelty and pleasure... these things will never go 
> away. We'll just be richer, more powerful and wiser for our troubles. 
> And what, exactly, is wrong with that?"
> http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue415/labnotes.html
>  
> What's wrong is that humans aren't ready for prime time.
>  
> Olga
>  
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