> 
> My view is that AGI is *required* if human beings are going to have any
> vibrant future at all and required within the next few decades.  Why?  
> Humans, and logically any technological species, evolve with certain
> species characteristics including limitations on their effective
> intelligence and ability to work cooperatively well together.  As a
> runaway technological acceleration occurs the species eventually hits a
> point where its effective intelligence is ineffective in capacity and
> speed for coming up with timely good enough solutions to more and more
> complex and rapidly developing problems.  Eventually, without either AGI
> or rewriting its own nature significantly, the species fails to make
> good enough choices followed through well enough to avoid calamity. 
> 
> 
> - samantha
> 

Samantha, what evidence is there of other comparable human species 
evolutionfollowing this scenario you've outlined?  Is this a conjecture on your 
part or has this happened before, and if so, when? 
Kindly advise,
~PM                                       


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