Re: both denOtter and Yudkowsky: possible singularity scenarios

From: Anton Sherwood (bronto@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Mar 14 2000 - 01:00:19 MST


> Anton Sherwood, <bronto@pobox.com>, writes:
> > Another is a short story by Silverberg iirc, in the form of a
> > conversation over drinks: a scholar says he has found persuasive
> > evidence that humans once had ten fingers, not twelve.

hal@finney.org wrote:
> I seem to recall this being the last story in a collection about matter
> transmitters, perhaps by Harry Harrison.

Could be; I read Harrison's ONE STEP FROM EARTH and Silverberg's
MOONFERNS AND STARSONGS at about the same time, close to thirty years
ago.

> The idea is that at some point
> the human race was taken over, but nobody really noticed because the
> culture stayed the same.

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