Hi all, Here's another essay from the "Ben Goertzel spare-time essay-writing factory" that seems to be very active these last few months. This one is related to AGI but more in the futurological vein than the currently practical vein.
It's called "Encouraging a Positive Transcension: AI Buddha versus AI Big Brother, Voluntary Joyous Growth, the Tao of Speciecide, and Other Issues in Transhumanist Ethical Philosophy" You can find it at http://www.goertzel.org/papers/PositiveTranscension.htm It was about 27 pages in Word -- not nearly enough to say everything I have to say about the topic, so it's a bit too terse in parts; but alas, other duties call... It's a first draft, and there may be some bits and pieces of thinking in there that appealed to me at the time of writing but won't appeal to me next week. But the broad outlines of the ideas presented there have been in my head for a long time, and some of them have popped up here and there in discussions on this list. -- Ben G ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
