From: Dan Fabulich (daniel.fabulich@yale.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 08 1999 - 00:57:36 MDT
At 11:39 PM 4/7/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Is the Singularity inevitable? In other words, is it going to happen
>anyway, regardless of what any particular person does or does not do? Or
>is it contingent, i.e. something that may or may not happen?
Well, on some level, it's trivially contingent: we have enough nuclear
weaponry to destroy all human life on earth umpteen times, etc.
But Singularity somehow, someway, with a species that may not even be our
own? Totally inevitable.
-Dan
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