Hugo de Garis interview - part 4 - 2010-10-09 008-1

[rmeddy1]

I can see this stuff being a repeat of the failures of communism.

As Nassim Taleb put it

The 20th Century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia. The 21st will be that of the technological one.

[SSJ3Ulcer]

The survival of the human species does not matter because we are not our bodies; we are our consciousnesses.

"If you wonder what will remain unequivocally human in such a world, it's simply this quality: ours is the species that inherently seeks to extend its physical and mental reach beyond current limitations." -- Ray Kurzweil

[mccoya2]

If humans would not be able to comprehend the processes/thoughts/actions of artilects - how do we know that the universe is not already one big artilect / network of them..? It would make sense given the size/age of the universe and the probability of multiple occurrences of life and thus development of technology elsewhere in the cosmos, that this singularity has already happened ( possibly multiples of times ).