On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Piaget Modeler
<[email protected]> wrote:
> PM:  Will "everyone" have access to a personal robot? really? I dont' think 
> so.  Not everyone has a PC or cell phone
>         or internet access, today.

75% of the world population has a cell phone.
http://www.rferl.org/content/report-says-75-percent-of-worlds-population-have-mobile-phones/24648234.html

35% of the world has internet access. This increases by 4% of the
world population each year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_usage

> "We need to let robots take over. They will do jobs we have been doing, and 
> do them much better than
> we can. They will do jobs we can’t do at all. They will do jobs we never 
> imagined even needed to be done.
> And they will help us discover new jobs for ourselves, new tasks that expand 
> who we are. They will let us
> focus on becoming more human than we were." - Kurzweil
>
> PM:  If this is truly the case, then why fear the Singularity? The day they 
> take over?
>         Why not do as Kurzweil suggests and go with the flow? Ahhh, there's 
> the rub.

Robot doing our work is not the Singularity. The next step is to
replace our brains and bodies with robots in order to achieve the
belief of immortality.


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-- Matt Mahoney, [email protected]


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