On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Anand Manikutty <manikuttyan...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> There has been a lot of interest around the idea of the technological > singularity. There is even an operating system by Microsoft carrying that > name. Anyway, I have been quite skeptical about the whole concept. <snip> > What I would like to note (perhaps it is a new claim, but it is a rather > obvious one) is that businesses are not interested in developing > technologies that could spiral out of control. The potential damage to a > business is too great. You seem to be assuming that businesses (or anyone/anything else, for that matter) can even know all possible outcomes of a "technology". This seems obviously mistaken. Have you read the original Singularity paper by Vernor Vinge [1] ? He's also done a talk on "What if the Singularity does not happen [2]? where he reiterates his belief that the Singularity is still the most likely non-catastrophic outcome of current human activity. Overall, either I am not understanding something basic in your position, or it is not fully thought-through. Say more? Udhay [1] http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/vinge/misc/WER2.html [2] http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/vinge/longnow/ -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
