(October 16, 2018 at 6:22 am)Mathilda Wrote: This is my gripe as well. People extrapolate the curve and expect the future to be what it is now but more so. But they don't take into account that any exponential curve will eventually hit a limit on resources and look more like a sigmoid function.
Or if we look at society today we see it doesn't even reward smart people, so why would we expect that they will in the future? I would much rather take my chances in the world governed by upgraded Richard Feynman, Paul Dirac, Albert Einstein, Robert Oppenheimer, Alan Turing than the one today which is governed by Jared Kushner, Rick Perry, Ivanka, Ben Carson, Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump.
You know Donald Trump could use some genetic engineering on his brain.
(October 16, 2018 at 6:22 am)Mathilda Wrote: Strong AI probably won't ever exist because society will collapse before then.
And we don't even need AI to make wars unfair or inhuman or whatever they think robots will contribute to warfare. All you need is some guy with a joystick sitting in some shack and piloting a silent deadly drone thousands of miles away.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
