From: CYMM (cymm@trinidad.net)
Date: Fri Sep 29 2000 - 14:35:28 MDT
EUGENE SAYS: "...Did you knew that they've started outlawing free Unices in
selected college dorms?.."
CYMM SAYS: "...WHAT! Are you serious? Please tell me more! You start
outlawing things - you create outlaws. Prohibition all over again.
EUGENE SAYS: "...I'm not. I don't like where the logics of it all is leading
us. There
must be a more constructive way out..."
CYMM SAYS: Now Eugene, that is tantamount to an act of blind faith. Look at
the extant constraints of the 1st decade of the "globalized" 21st century.
How potent - how directed - can human governance be under such
circumstances?
Maybe an individual - or a small group - can take a survivalist stance
against hyper AI... but then those activities (...as i interpret the
empirical evidence...) quickly turn into cultthink.
That's why I think the whole upload thing is naive (...not the tech behind
it mind you) - a human is unlikely to constrain an exhuman and human ethics
must necessarily be discarded by posthumans who go the upload way.
You can try to Asimov the uploads and their progeny (...enhanced copies,
etc) into submission - but in your heart of hearts do you think that "we"
could ever contain "them"?
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