RE: "Hostile" transhumans (Re: Magic means large search spaces)

From: Ben Goertzel (ben@goertzel.org)
Date: Fri Jul 22 2005 - 15:53:32 MDT


> > Now, dogs of course were bred by humans to trust
> > humans.... In the case
> > we are now considering, it is the inferior beast (humans)
> > that is creating
> > the superior beast (the transhumans) rather than vice
> > versa -- which is of course a far trickier situation....
>
> I would rather view this as an issue of self-accelerated
> evolution, than as an "us vs. them" issue.

But if some humans choose to remain human then it will become an "us vs.
them" issue, no?

ben



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