From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Fri Dec 11 1998 - 18:32:50 MST
den Otter writes:
> Eh, shouldn't we *all* be somewhat concerned? Afaik, being
> a transhumanist isn't some kind of magic protection from
> the less pleasant byproducts of progress.
There's nothing you could do in case of a worst case event. The only
really stable solution would seem to go postbiological as soon as
possible, and hope that the technology is very tightly controlled
during the migration phase. I don't believe in Blue Goo until its
efficaciousness has been shown by modelling (here for once I'm not
clamoring for empirical validation); intuitively due to
situation's assymetry Blue seems to be in an intrinsically weaker
position. Nothing at all can be done against a Blight (hard
Singularity).
After migration is completed, the situation appears containable.
Don't let the interesting times get you before, that's all.
'gene
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