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Singularities Enough, and Time

Posted on June 28, 2008

A few people have asked me what I thought of Karl Schroeder's recent article at Worldchanging, No Time for the Singularity. Karl argues that we can't count on super-intelligent AIs to save us from environmental disaster, since by the time they're possible (assuming that they're possible), things will have gotten so bad that they won't matter (and/or won't have any resources available to act, or even persist). It's a pretty straightforward argument, and echoes pieces I've written on parallel themes. In short, my initial reaction, was yeah, of course. But giving it a bit more thought, I see t...

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