Re: >H Arguments against singularity

["Waldemar Ingdahl" <wingdahl@hotmail.com>]

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>I find the idea that AI might not be possible to be extremely difficult to
>defend.

That AI might not be possible is not my point at all. I think that the basis 
of transhumanism must be built without necessarily recurring to super-tech. 
For instance, Anders, Nick and me had a very interesting discussion while I 
slept (I spoke by reflex). We discussed the idea of a hypothetical complete 
stop of all technological development (this is not possible but for the 
argument...), Nick said that this would be the end of transhumanism but 
Anders and yours humbly didn't agree. Transhumanism's basic ideas are so 
strong that they certainly will survive even an end to technology. I think 
this is a very important point to make. I do think that AI (software capable 
of high levels of intelligence) are possible and will (with the right 
conditions) be developed. But if we just stick to superscience or very, very 
weak ideas like Singularity we will loose some very important strong 
features in transhumanism.

Ingdahl


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