From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Tue May 21 2002 - 01:11:23 MDT
Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
> Don't anybody ever tell me I didn't tell you so.
>
> Slashdot is reporting that the Kazaa network has been
> hit by its first worm virus:
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/20/2022243
>
> Now if this had been an amoral seed AI we could all
> be sitting in deep doo-doo right about now (constrained
> only by the unknown knowledge as to whether the current
> net bandwidth could support a transhuman AI).
And whether we have the skills to write one, and whether it
could possibly be delivered in such a manner. Really, it is a
pretty far jump froma simple worm virus to a transhuman AI
eating the Net through KaZaa.
>
> So you don't think our computers and stupid human behaviors
> can eliminate our chance of surviving the singularity?
> Just watch.
>
On the other hand, our computers and human behavior are all we
have to even get to the Singularity.
- samantha
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