Re: Time to go Fukuyama on neuroscience?

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri May 24 2002 - 06:11:57 MDT


Anders Sandberg wrote:
>
> Two articles in The Economist worrying about the ethics of brain science
> and how it may create a (shudder!) posthuman future:
>
> http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1143583
> http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1143317
>
> See the effect Fukuyama et al has? We better respond proactively - not
> doing anything will lead to a walk-over situation. We need more books
> like Greg Stock's.

There is no "we". Nothing is ever done by "we". But if anyone wants to
step up and say "I will write a letter to _The Economist_," I'm sure we'd
all be grateful.

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



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Sat Nov 02 2002 - 09:14:19 MST