tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34649134.post7746746539481396934..comments2023-06-30T05:16:57.517-07:00Comments on Gosporn: Abaddon RisingMichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00531037998720855468noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34649134.post-36054419782296488862011-07-08T21:45:38.249-07:002011-07-08T21:45:38.249-07:00By some eerie "coincidence" Stuart Stani...By some eerie "coincidence" Stuart Staniford had this up about 10 days ago- Morning Singularity Watch:<br /><br />http://earlywarn.blogspot.com/2011/06/morning-singularity-watch.html<br /><br /><i>"Apologists for proceeding as rapidly as possible to a singularity like to claim that there's nothing to worry about because we'll use all this fantastic AI to integrate with and augment human intelligence and make being human more and more fun and fantastic. But whenever you look at actual trends on making humans better/healthier/smarter etc, you see very modest progress and/or diminishing returns, while the progress of the machines is much faster. To me, that suggests the main symptom of the approach to the singularity will be to render a larger and larger fraction of the human population unemployable. And that's been going on for a few decades now..."<br /><br />...<br /><br />"... creating intelligence that can duplicate more and more of human's mental capabilities is fundamentally different than all other prior technological progress. Why? Because, once that is accomplished, we have nothing left to offer the economy in the way of productivity. It won't need us. I have no idea what will happen as a result, but I wonder if we'll just go crazy before we get there."</i><br /><br />Worth digging into the comments a bit also.Johnnoreply@blogger.com