On 6/4/07, Papiewski, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We already have intelligent **human beings** whose well-reasoned ideas get no traction in society at large. What makes you think that an AI is going to fare any better?
I don't. If the AI isn't plugged into politics I don't see it making any change to
human civilization regardless of how smart it might be.
That doesn't follow. What we need to do, that intelligent life not turn out just a brief evolutionary experiment, is to break the bonds of time and space: reverse aging and make space settlement feasible. And I think both of these things are politically feasible as it stands. (The first, granted, has been the subject of controversy, but I think there's a lot of 'I bet they were sour anyway' in that. Aside from a hard core who truly want death, I think most older voters, if they are offered the means to be healthy again, will take it.) ----- 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/?member_id=4007604&user_secret=7d7fb4d8
