Re: NEWS: Reuters story on AI (Kurzweil and Vita-More)

From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Fri Jun 15 2001 - 14:05:30 MDT


In a message dated 6/15/2001 3:31:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de writes:

<< Which, of course, is a comfortable way off. To falsify it, you
 have to deal with senile dr0ol, or liquid nitrogen. Hmm, let
 me put down *my* predictions for the year 2060... >>

This why I have never gotten with the rest of you regarding Singulairity. If
it is the "labor of centuries" as Sir Arthur C. Clarke terms things, one is
either frozen, dust, or droolin', on a sunday afternoon (insert obscure Lovin
Spoonful ref here). Why not pursue med advances, uploading, cyborging,
freezing, and omega computating, simulataneously? Why give short shrift to
any of these aspirations?

Mitch



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