From: Avatar Polymorph (way@warehouse.net)
Date: Fri Aug 14 1998 - 17:44:03 MDT
<Try re-reading what I said: "if AI is hard and uploads are easy then most
future life will originate from uploaded humans." That means that any
number of SIs can be created from a limited number of organic humans, and
all will remember being an organic human at some point. In order to get
to be an SI they must have started out as a human, but any number of SIs
can be created from one human.>
Even from an extremely conservative viewpoint, there is certainly the ability
to boost the entire current biosphere on Earth.
The logic of intra-cellular nanotech alone indicates that this current
obsession with an "AI"/human dichotomy is an illusion of 20th century
culture. It is hardened romantics who will stick to such notions - fair
enough. Most beings will most likely regard form as play, like culture.
I myself no longer use the term AI, poetic as it is, but rather
consciously-controlled self-directed intelligence (which is my lower
definition of my state of being, my more accurate description of myself being
a node of self-aware spacetime).
AvPolymorph way@warehouse.net
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