Yikes! I suffer from chronic cynicism...
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Matt Mahoney <[email protected]>wrote: > 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. > > > -- > -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/23050605-2da819ff > 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-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
