hal@finney.org wrote:
> In fairness though we do have many people here and in nanotech circles
> who expect a much faster transformation. See Eliezer's recent posts about
> his Singularity Institute, for example. So it is quite appropriate for
> critics such as Lyle to address such claims.
Actually, in Eli's scenario the rapid change is a product of superhuman intelligence. The nanotech is just a convenient tool for the SI to use - if there weren't any such thing you would still get a Singularity, it would just take a little longer.
> A correction, the URL is http://crit.org.
Oops. Sorry. That's what I get for typing URLs from memory.
Billy Brown, MCSE+I
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