Peter Voss wrote:
I have a more fundamental question though: Why in particular would we want to convince people that the Singularity is coming? I see many disadvantages to widely promoting these ideas prematurely.
If one's plan is to launch a Singularity quickly, before anyone else notices, then I feel that promoting these ideas is basically irrelevant.... It is unlikely that promotion will lead to such rapid spread of the concepts as to create significant risk of Singularity-enabling technologies being made illegal in the near term... OTOH, if the Singularity launch is to happen a little more slowly, then it will be of value if a larger number of intelligent and open-minded people have more thoroughly thought through the Singularity and related ideas. These sorts of ideas take a while to sink in; and I think that people who have had the idea of the Singularity in their minds for a while will be better able to grapple with the reality when it comes about... -- Ben ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
