From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Sat Dec 16 2000 - 20:41:05 MST
From: "Michael M. Butler" <butler@comp-lib.org>
> What are those who fear the arrival of anything someone with an agenda
> might have labeled "super-intelligence"?
>
> What of those whose emotional ground of being is largely fear?
Those whose emotional ground of being is largely fear ask this question?
We can discuss my counseling fee offline.
If we cannot help but fantasize that a super-intelligence agenda
substantiates our fears, we clearly have no business trying to create
super-intelligence. So (obviously), we've chosen other career paths. No
problem, someone else will do it. This has nothing whatsoever to do with
labeling. Extropic evolution gets a boost from super-consilience cascading
into a second Enlightenment. Nothing frightening about that.
Stay hungry,
--J. R.
3M TA3
"But then arises the doubt: can the mind of man, which has, as I fully
believe, been developed from a mind as low as that possessed by the lowest
animal, be trusted when it draws such grand conclusions?"
--Charles Darwin
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