From: N.BOSTROM@lse.ac.uk
Date: Tue Jul 22 1997 - 19:57:27 MDT
In response to Mitchell Porter
> The consequences of the Singularity depend on what is done with
> those technologies; what does *that* depend on?
Anders Sandebrg wrote:
>Values.
Yes. Or more unambigously: desires. And then we can take a step
further, and ask: Which desires? I can be argued that
it will the *higher-order* desires of the influential persons in
the society wherein the first SI is developed that will fix and
determine all the future evolution of in a growing sphere centered
around earth. See the section about Values and Social Attractors
in my paper Predictions from Philosophy? at
http://www.hedweb.com/nickb/predict.htm
Nicholas Bostrom
n.bostrom@lse.ac.uk
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