While I thrill at some of the enablement's this could afford us I'm also thankful I won't be around when it's being fully tested. As much as I love Gates software having to be the guinea pig for glitches has been enough for my lifetime. I'd hate to pace that up a few notches and be the body those glitches manifest themselves in while the designers hurry to send me patches.
I agree as to moral law without intelligence and would like to add without heart as well.
Perhaps this present humanity should be mastered a tad more before we take on such a task.
"Perhaps this present humanity should be mastered a tad more before we take on such a task."
I agree with your sentiment but the "task" is already being taken on and I doubt there's any turning back.
One is struck, when reading Kurzweil's piece or his new book, which I recommend, by the inevidibility of it all. Oh, not every detail as he imagines it or even the exact timeframes he lays out but clearly something that resembles what he predicts.
The profit motive+the health motive+the extended life span motive are simply too powerful to be resisted.
And no one country or group of countries can legislate technological advance away. Like rocks in a stream, the water merely flows around them
"As much as I love Gates software having to be the guinea pig for glitches has been enough for my lifetime. I'd hate to pace that up a few notches and be the body those glitches manifest themselves in while the designers hurry to send me patches."
Funniest thing I've read on FR in a while, Thanks!