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To: SeekAndFind
"either destroy humanity or carry it to unimaginable heights."

He sounds like a mass murderer in the making. Wonder if google checked if he owned a gun.

He speaks of life; yet, says humanity should be destroyed.

"A double minded man is unstable in all his ways." James 1:8

12 posted on 12/27/2012 7:38:26 PM PST by presently no screen name
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To: presently no screen name

Oh come on. He doesn’t advocate the destruction, he’s really just talking about the same general idea that all the big sci-fi authors grappled with: that creating intelligent machines stronger, and possibly smarter than us, could lead to our own extinction.

Isaac Asimov came up with his “Robotic Laws” to deal with this kind of problem, postulating that intelligent machines would need to be “hard-coded” to never cause harm to humans, otherwise building them would be too risky.


15 posted on 12/27/2012 7:50:07 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: presently no screen name
He speaks of life; yet, says humanity should be destroyed.

He says nothing of the kind. Even this Business Insider article, which is a mistake-filled rehash of a rather foolish Bloomberg article, doesn't claim that.
23 posted on 12/27/2012 10:35:52 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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