Re: [singularity] Philanthropy & Singularity

2007-03-15 Thread John-Michael
People who are "getting killed every day for having the wrong gender, religion, clothing, opinions etc." are the global poor. On 3/16/07, Adrian-Bogdan Morut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Thus, if that is one's priorities, it might still make sense to concentrate on more direct efforts to help th

Re: [singularity] Philanthropy & Singularity

2007-03-15 Thread Adrian-Bogdan Morut
"Thus, if that is one's priorities, it might still make sense to concentrate on more direct efforts to help the global poor." The poor? What about the people getting killed every day for having the wrong gender, religion, clothing, opinions etc.? I'd say those are the ones in greater need of resc

[singularity] Philanthropy & Singularity

2007-03-15 Thread John Ku
Does anyone know what Bill Gates thinks about the singularity? (Or for that matter, other great philanthropists.) On Kurzweil's "The Singularity is Near" (paperback edition), he has a blurb saying Kurzweil is "The best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence." He also has