I don't know when Lanier wrote the following but I would be interested to know
what the AI folks here think about his critique (or direct me to a thread where
this was already discussed). Also would someone be able to re-state his
rainstorm thought experiment more clearly -- I am not sure I get it:
http://www.jaronlanier.com/aichapter.html
Eric B. Ramsay
"John G. Rose" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How about â
the movie is going along, year 2028, an AGI goes Singularity and burns to the
center of the earth and converts the core into a giant AGI supercomputer. And
then average Joe out of the blue gets a message in his ears âWe would like to
make your transition to Singularity mode as smooth as possible. Please stand
byâ¦â Then everything goes from normal matter and physics and is converted
into Singularity AGI RAM. You see the earth with a disturbance wave going
across the surface as it gets converted into memory. Then the physics start
gettinâ weird from what people experience, everything starts floating,
physics goes to on-demand per user. The average Joe then hears âThank you.
The transition to Singularity is now complete. We hope to continue serving you
in your new simulatory state of being.â
John
From: Joshua Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 4:01 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [singularity] mass-market Singularity fiction
A nice idea would be a "Bad Singularity Science" website along the lines
of http://intuitor.com/moviephysics/ and
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/movies.
Like it or not, sci-fi is already the main gateway in making people aware
about the Singularity ("Terminator!" "Matrix!") and this should be used to
educate.
SIAI's "Three Laws" campaign http://www.asimovlaws.com was excellent, although
if we are to take the model of those sites, the style would be a bit more
entertainment-oriented (while still educating) .
Joshua
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