From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Apr 30 2001 - 16:33:18 MDT
Ben Goertzel wrote:
>
> > The world we make along the way will shape the Singularity and may well
> > determine whether it occurs at all.
> >
> > - samantha
>
> wonderfully put! I wish I had put it so clearly myself ;>
I agree. The thing is, though, that there are already thousands of people
working full-time to shape the world into a nicer place, and the massive
momentum of the existing world has a *lot* more inertia than the fragile
nonexistence of AI.
I'll still take any targets of opportunity that show up, of course.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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