Re[2]: META: Sept. 11 and Singularity

From: Cliff Stabbert (cps46@earthlink.net)
Date: Thu Sep 12 2002 - 19:59:11 MDT


Thursday, September 12, 2002, 9:32:26 PM, Ben Goertzel wrote:
>> GK Uploaded wrote:
>> >
>> > I spent a good deal of the day yesterday -- 9/11 --
>> > mulling over the hope that the Singularity will, among
>> > other things, give Humans -- as Trans-Humans? -- the
>> > ability to finally achieve Immortality (in a world where
>> > we've "licked" Cancer, and Political Upheaval, World Hunger,
>> > etc. etc...)
>>
>> That's it. That's my reply. I'm not going to say any of the things I
>> want to say. Either you see it for yourself, or you don't.

BG> Yes, I see what you were reacting to; and I wish you hadn't reacted as
BG> strongly as you had.

Ben, can you clarify for me (and perhaps others who can't follow) what
you see there?

--
Cliff






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