Re: High Technology of the Future

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Jan 04 2001 - 14:00:17 MST


EvMick@aol.com wrote:
>
> Technology defines humanity. If you describe a human with no technology then
> youre not describing a human. I'd say the change has been immense and
> ongoing..

This is simply not true. A human is a human brain. A human is a human
cognitive architecture. We may have evolved in the presence of fur
clothing and flint axes, but take away even that, and the brain remains
the same.

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence



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