From: Billy Brown (bbrown@transcient.com)
Date: Tue Nov 16 1999 - 10:14:17 MST
hal@finney.org wrote:
> In fairness though we do have many people here and in nanotech circles
> who expect a much faster transformation. See Eliezer's recent posts about
> his Singularity Institute, for example. So it is quite appropriate for
> critics such as Lyle to address such claims.
Actually, in Eli's scenario the rapid change is a product of superhuman
intelligence. The nanotech is just a convenient tool for the SI to use - if
there weren't any such thing you would still get a Singularity, it would
just take a little longer.
I know that newcomers usually go through a phase where they think there will
be a 'Nanotech Day' when suddenly you can do anything, but they usually get
over it after a few months. I don't know of any serious thinkers who hold
to this view - do you?
> A correction, the URL is http://crit.org.
Oops. Sorry. That's what I get for typing URLs from memory.
Billy Brown, MCSE+I
bbrown@transcient.com
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