Re: Moravec Interviewed by BBC

From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Wed Aug 23 2000 - 17:07:50 MDT


> OK, then how well can we design humanoid robots to come up with the
> solutions or answers?

More importantly, we might ask how well we can immunize humans against the
stupidity of the church-temple-mosque, nation-state, corporation, family and
other entropy-oriented entities.
The fact that socialism derives from congenital selfishness doesn't help us, of
course. But knowing it at least warns us not to trust their ideologues,
demagogues, and theologues.

--J. R.

"Something beckons within the reach of each of us
to save heroic genius. Find it, and do it.
For as goes heroic genius, so goes humankind."
--Alligator Grundy, _Analects of Atman_



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