thanks for taking the time to write this. it was quite an epic read, while listening to radiohead's 'everything in it's right place'.
That deleted comment was mine. My intention was to trigger some argumentation, but then @feral wrote something that sounded like he had a much more formed opinion that I did, so my comment felt unneeded. anyway, deleting it was such a bad call, sorry about that. lesson learned.
anyway, for the record and the curious, here it is (snatched it back from my cache):
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But to imagine that that self-aware technology will be anything but symbiotic with us is truly crazy.
Why is it absurd? I'm not arguing one way or the other, I'm just interested. I know very little about Ray Kurzweil's singularity theory (or AI research for that matter), the little I know doesn't sound that implausible. But it does sound quite dark, so if there's a reason why it's truly crazy then I would joyously hear it.
Edit: to be clear here, crazy or not crazy, I do not endorse violence.
That deleted comment was mine. My intention was to trigger some argumentation, but then @feral wrote something that sounded like he had a much more formed opinion that I did, so my comment felt unneeded. anyway, deleting it was such a bad call, sorry about that. lesson learned.
anyway, for the record and the curious, here it is (snatched it back from my cache):
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But to imagine that that self-aware technology will be anything but symbiotic with us is truly crazy.
Why is it absurd? I'm not arguing one way or the other, I'm just interested. I know very little about Ray Kurzweil's singularity theory (or AI research for that matter), the little I know doesn't sound that implausible. But it does sound quite dark, so if there's a reason why it's truly crazy then I would joyously hear it.
Edit: to be clear here, crazy or not crazy, I do not endorse violence.
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