From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Wed May 23 2001 - 11:55:15 MDT
"Harvey Newstrom" wrote,
> Even if you think this worm fixes bad holes, wait until somebody decides
> that Microsoft Visual Basic is just too dangerous, and tries to "fix" it on
> everybody else's computer. I fear the coming wave of copycats who will try
> to be "helpful" without asking.
Your comments swing my Cognitive Distortion Meter into the "UNDERESTIMATION"
zone.
Assimilation happens all the time. Nothing new. Just happening faster of late.
(It only seems entropic to us when we resist.)
We are not the Knights who say "Ni!"
We're the Global Brain Metaman who assimilates all intelligent entities.
Or, in the words of Ray Kurzweil, "An evolutionary process accelerates because
it builds on its own means for further evolution. Humans have beaten
evolution. We are creating intelligent entities in considerably less time than
it took the evolutionary process that created us. Human intelligence--a
product of evolution--has transcended it. So, too, the intelligence that we
are now creating in computers will soon exceed the intelligence of its
creators."
So, let the Net fix your Visual Basic for you. Resistance is, after all, quite
futile.
τΏτ
Stay hungry,
--J. R.
Useless hypotheses:
consciousness, phlogiston, philosophy, vitalism, mind, free will, qualia,
analog computing, cultural relativism
"Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural
selection, the force that made us.... Soon we must look deep within ourselves
and decide what we wish to become."
Edward O. Wilson
Consilience, The Unity of Knowledge
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