Posted: Apr 28, 2017 4:59 pm
It's quite possible that I messed up this thread by not stressing the intended context, which is the pants-wetting of the likes of Sam Harris and Hawking (neither of whom have any credentials in a relevant field) and the utopian sci-fi porn of Kurzweil (I think he used to make electronic keyboards). Those guys are all in the world of super speculation. The article I posted is just a rejoinder, suggesting that the likes of Harris, Hawking and Kurzweil are engaged in naive speculation. It's asking "but what if...?", not countering with a bunch of equally naive proclamations on the nature of intelligence.Thommo wrote:Link is back up again for me. Quite a good read, provoked some thoughts at the very least.
Despite the title it's very upbeat and highly speculative. My own reaction was to take it with a pinch of salt, but be thankful it didn't read like the almost endless churn of singularity narrative, or similar.
Maybe we're reading different articles. It's possible that they've had website problems after they appeared yesterday on Hacker News.
Any response about what will happen a million years from now is so off-base that I just have to let the relevant poster drift off into their own little world.