From: James Higgins (jameshiggins@earthlink.net)
Date: Sun Jun 23 2002 - 13:46:05 MDT
At 02:18 PM 6/23/2002 -0400, Brian Atkins wrote:
>Eugen Leitl wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, James Higgins wrote:
> >
> > > to get the Singularity in full force the more people die (that's my
> > > interpretation of his vision, at least). Personally, I'd rather let a
> > > few hundred thousand people die while making certain that the
> > > Singularity won't just wipe everyone out. I mean, what's the point in
> >
> > I agree with this assessment.
> >
>
>Just a pedantic nitpick, but if Eugene gets his future where all countries
>pass and perfectly enforce laws against AI development, and it therefore
>takes at least 20 more years before we get some alternate Singularity
>technology such as uploading, we are talking about quite a few more deaths
>than a "few hundred thousand":
>
>20 years * 365 days/year * 150k deaths/day = 1095 megadeaths
Sounds perfectly reasonable to me if it means saving the human race as a
whole. Even if I'm one of those 1 billion deaths.
James Higgins
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