From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Sat Dec 16 2000 - 17:07:39 MST
"J. R. Molloy" wrote, apart from many fine sounding things, a pair of
things that spark a pair of questions in me...
> In a world made stupid by ideology, only fools fear the arrival of
> super-intelligence.
<snip>
> " ...and the business of philosophy is to show that we are not fools for
> doing what we want to do." --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Well, and perhaps you are right.
What are those who fear the arrival of anything someone with an agenda
might have labeled "super-intelligence"?
What of those whose emotional ground of being is largely fear?
"Here.
Drink this, it's good.
Just look at the label.
Come on, drink it.
I SAID DRINK IT, DAMMIT!
Fool."
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