Well... this is good ol' de Garis as we all know him, only a bit more annoyed. As to his positions in general - there is truly [almost] never too much caution and risk analysis but his overall argument about the inevitable Terran-Cosmist war and the likely-to-be-malevolent AGIs fuelling and hovering above the gigadeath carnage has always struck me as a superbly articulated and well-spoken variation on the Terminator-like scenarios which do require some pretty hard argumentation to be considered plausible and worthy of serious consideration. Apparently meanwhile he has also acquired the awkward position where the humanity is "drowned" by superior synthetic intellects, omitting the otherwise quite obvious and, in the perspective, perfectly realistic prospect of humans augmenting their own brainiage, overcoming their biologically built-in hardware limitations and becoming in capacity much more like those intellects themselves.
As always, he is interesting to read and he has some very good, if not very novel, points to [re]consider but in the whole his rhetoric seems to be founded on a certain pet theory, a couple of heavyweight a priori assumptions and general dislike towards certain approaches within the larger transhumanist thought. All in all, Hugo de Garis as we all can expect him to be at his finest, 4 stars out of 5. /NJ/ On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://hplusmagazine.com/2012/08/21/the-singhilarity-institute-my-falling-out-with-the-transhumanists/ > > -- > Ben Goertzel, PhD > http://goertzel.org > > "My humanity is a constant self-overcoming" -- Friedrich Nietzsche > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/20912103-eed2d0e1 > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
