From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Fri Jun 14 2002 - 23:14:33 MDT
Spike writes
> Speaking of fast curves, former world chess champion Garry Kasparov
> made a funny comment quoted in today's SF Chron. In 1989, after
> defeating Deep Thought, he expressed his foreboding: "I don't know how
> we can exist knowing that there exists something mentally stronger than us."
> This cat is definitely not going to enjoy the Singularity.
Yeah, typical human chauvinism ;-) his tune'll change after
he gets uploaded.
> A computer served up Kasparov's head on a platter only 6 years
> after he made this comment, yet he survived just the same.
Yes, his statement "I don't see how we can exist" is pretty
laughable. But it does reveal the angst that a lot of futuristic
issues raise in people, and it should caution us how badly our
intuitions about that are becoming as we immerse ourselves year
in and year out in the most far out stuff we can think of.
Lee
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