Mike, On 10/10/06, deering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Going beyond the definition of Singularity we can make some educated guesses about the most likely conditions under which the Singularity will occur. Due to technological synergy, the creation of STHI will happen coincident with the achievement of molecular manufacturing and the completion of all basic biological molecular functions including gene expression control functions and proteomics. For all three of these highly significant events to occur at the same time ensures sudden and massive sociological disruption.
Not at all. It should be theoretically possible to create an AGI that is superintelligent and has all this knowledge, but uses it in a nondisruptive way to help humanity. A Friendly AI could introduce technologies with feature sets that bring out the cooperative aspect of humanity rather than our warlike aspect. This might be both what a normatively altruistic AI and a collective volition AI would do. In that case you would have all these significant events without accompanying sociological upheaval. You could even go back to a society superficially similar to the Middle Ages (or, say, steampunk novels), except you are perpetually youthful and can fabricate tools out of thin air. For more on this: http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/?p=3 -- Michael Anissimov Lifeboat Foundation http://lifeboat.com http://acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog ----- 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]
