On 07/12/2012 20:03, Russell Wallace wrote:
The rest of it is just made up. You don't know in what conditions people would choose to upload, or whether self replicating robots will ever exist, or what properties they will have if they do, or what the future world in which they come to exist will look like and what it will permit them to do, etc. Nobody does. The future is inherently unpredictable. [...]
The details, maybe. However, there's the idea of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_determinism ...which seems to explain an awful lot. So, it doesn't really seem to be correct to say that the future is "inherently unpredictable". -- __________ |im |yler http://timtyler.org/ [email protected] Remove lock to reply. ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
