From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Sun Sep 03 2000 - 15:09:01 MDT
I would just add that John Smart and his singularitywatch.com site are
working on the "other stuff" related to this topic: meme spreading/tracking,
holding conferences eventually, singularity studies/research, etc.
"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote:
>
> Natasha Vita-More wrote:
> >
> > I'm not sure of the focus, though. Is the Singularity Institute's
> > direction attempting to produce research about the oncoming Singularity and
> > develop of ways to deal with the massive growth of machine intelligence, or
> > exercise a belief system?
>
> Neither. We're here to build the superintelligence.
>
> The alleged object of reasonable debate and rational analysis is to choose a
> course of action, not to impress the world with how uncertain you're
> pretending to be. We have refined our analysis to the point where this course
> of action is known to be significantly more promising than any other course of
> action available. And time is valuable.
>
> -- -- -- -- --
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
> Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
-- Brian Atkins Director, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence http://www.singinst.org/
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