Robin Hanson writes:
> >I think this is a dangerous position. ...
>
> Yes, powerful ideas are dangerous. But that doesn't make them wrong.
I was actually thinking about the verbatim sense: it might kill you, since you choose not the right strategy because of a wrong model. No rhetorics.
> >The bulk of past predictions now seems ludicrous. ...
>
> This claim is independent of any concept of singularity. So are you
> saying no one should ever attempt to envision the future decades ahead?
Independent? Not quite. It's just that predicting things grows the harder the nearer we are near the Singularity. _Of course_ one should attempt to envision the future decades ahead, just don't expect it's graven in stone you'll turn out right.
> >If there is no banking nor art after the Singularity, extrapolating
> >from past human insight is worth shit.
> >you emerge a god from the other side ... which is perfectly
> >incomprehensible for an nonparticipating mehum observer.
>
> How can you be so sure of these things, that gods have no banking, and
> that gods are incomprehensible to us? These true by definition of "god"?
'gene