X-Message-Number: 29761
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 15:24:06 -0400
From: Robin Helweg-Larsen <>
Subject: Re: What is it?

1.  In 25 words or less - What is the singularity?
The currently unknowable state of the world that will develop
when Artificial Intelligence exceeds human intelligence.

2.  In 10 words or less is it a good thing or a bad
thing?
Good, assuming we're integrated with and enhanced by the AI.

3.  In 50 words or less, explain your reasons in #2
above.
Cultural development is destabilizing and imperfect, but better
than cultural stagnation; who wants to live naked in caves
without fire?  Similarly, I won't want to return to a limited
lifespan in a world of competing sovereign nations, with nuclear
weapons but neither the structure nor will to reverse global warming.

Robin Helweg-Larsen

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