Steve,
> You are up to your ankles in pine needles and wondering where is the > forest. > Hmmm.... Look, I'm a researcher and a nerd who happens to be relatively good at communication -- but I'm not a PR guy and I know it. I've seen a variety of PR guys in operation, good, bad and weird... These are early days for AGI. Later days may perhaps come quickly given exponential advance, but they're not here yet. Once there has been a real "AGI Sputnik" event, then the media will REALLY get seriously on the AGI case, and the pro-AGI camp will need some serious PR mojo on its side. I have no doubt this will happen. Would YOU bet the future of the human race on the word of a middle aged guy > in dreadlocks who claims there is no problem? Well, you probably would, but > don't be surprised if you are relatively alone in this view. > Hey, if you think I have dreadlocks, you been smoking too much ganja dude !!! I'll have you know I condition and brush my lovely locks every day, with special conditioner brewed from fermented mole placenta in David Hanson's secret robot lab !!! **** IMO, to get media attention sufficient to counteract the media's love of alarmism and doomsaying, the pro-AGI community would need to come forward very aggressively with the message that AGI is important for SAVING AND IMPROVING HUMAN LIVES ... > > ... and in advancing this view, you simply come off as a nut case to a LOT > of people who are more concerned about their safety. > **** Hmm, with all due respect, you are not the person I will go to, for a considered opinion as to whether I come off as a nutcase or not ;p ... *** This is a social and NOT a scientific issue. Who wants to relate to a machine?!!! Give me a sexy nurse. *** "Who wants to relate to a machine?!!!" is obviously uttered by someone who has not walked down the streets of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Seoul, Taipei or Tokyo in the last 5 years or so.... What you see here in Asia are vast masses of people whose main interest in life seems to be relating to the computers they hold in their hands... Note this rather savvy depiction of the end of the world ;D ... http://www.demotivation.us/media/demotivators/demotivation.us_What-I-imagine-everyone-will-do-In-the-end-of-the-world_139996600413.jpg -- Ben ------------------------------------------- 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
