Re: alex's local maxima

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Mon Sep 13 1999 - 06:49:15 MDT


Spike Jones <spike66@ibm.net> writes:

> About a week ago Alex Bokov posted something that has been
> rattling around in my brain ever since: that our society is threatened
> by hitting local maxima and stagnating. Perhaps this is a greater
> threat than military nanotech or singularity.

Perhaps. But a good way of avoiding it is to maximize diversity, to
make sure that there is always somebody, somewhere who is doing things
differently and getting away with it.

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