AI and human extinction

[Lisa & Ian Murray]

Well the Clinton administration has just pledged 500 million for
nanotechnology research in the latest Economic Report of the President, so
before we start worrying too much about the Terminator and Cyberdine
Systems, perhaps we could think more about the Socialism of Investment with
regards to incubating new technologies and whether we the public can secure
some decent property rights before yet another bunch of weird stuff we paid
for gets hailed as a gift of the free market
http://w3.access.gpo.gov/eop/

Ian


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of James Baird
> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 2:45 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: AI and human extinction
>
>
>
> Some of the recent discussions on this list (about
> linguistics and Mind/Body questions, as well as GM
> foods) have brought to mind the recent flap about Bill
> Joy's article in Wired (its at
> http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html), in
> which he muses about the potential distructive effects
> of AI, Nanotech, and Genetics.  I'd be interested in
> hearing what the people on this list think about it.
>
> Jim Baird
>
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