From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Sun Apr 29 2001 - 08:59:07 MDT
From: "Anders Sandberg" <asa@nada.kth.se>
> What I would like to see is a bit more discussion about the problems in
> the present and near future that does not end in "The singularity will
> make it irrelevant", "The government/illuminati will stop all such
> attempts", "People are too stupid to get it" and "Oh, it is trivial to
> fix".
Of course you realize my comments were tongue-in-cheek, but I see what you
mean, Anders. What about the cyber-attacks by Chinese hackers? What's the
Swedish position on the "One China" policy? Do you think it's possible that
the Russians have built an artificial human brain?
τΏτ
Stay hungry,
--J. R.
Useless hypotheses:
consciousness, phlogiston, philosophy, vitalism, mind, free will, qualia,
analog computing, cultural relativism
Everything that can happen has already happened, not just once,
but an infinite number of times, and will continue to do so forever.
(Everything that can happen = more than anyone can imagine.)
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