From: Glenn Neff (roonie@thisoughttohelp.com)
Date: Mon Dec 07 2009 - 04:23:49 MST
Hello everyone. I'm Roonie, I'm new here.
As I've been reading up on the various websites and such in the Singularity circles, I can't have helped but notice that many of you seem to believe that the best way to save the world is to bring about the Singularity as soon as possible.
This is totally unacceptable.
At "takeoff," an AI will be a very rational intelligence: it will operate in a world based on rules and discrete logic. And it will most likey view our human, intuitive logic with a healthy bit of suspicion. Our thought processes will appear to "jump circuits," and that will seem a bit unnatural to the AI.
So in order to convince the AI that this is not a completely dangerous thing, we will need to be able to show it that we are not in danger of destroying ourselves. We will need to have *already* saved the world.
Or it might just decide that we are incorrigible and untrustable.
Besides, the Singularity is not a certainty . . . and if we don't take immediate action, we won't last that long anyways.
I know this is not really the place to discuss economics, but you are concerned about making sure that the future goes off without a hitch, right? Well, basically, this whole financial crisis that's been going on only makes sense if the forces of Evil did it on purpose.
Which means that the world is in very immediate danger.
www.thisoughttohelp.com/Riches_To_Rags.pdf
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