It's so cute watching theists wrestle with futurism

Aug 03, 2010 00:19

It's so cute when theists basically pat their audience on the head and say, "There, there, thinking machines aren't a threat. We won't have to treat them any better than we do a dog.David Gelernter throws out words like "consciousness" and "awareness" and even the hoary "free will" without ever acknowledging that none of these terms have any ( Read more... )

singularity, theism, ai

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autopope August 3 2010, 10:10:38 UTC
Ah ...

... Er ...

You haven't read my next novel yet, have you?

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gromm August 4 2010, 04:53:17 UTC
That's nothing. Even more amusing is watching theists wrestle with the present. The theists and social conservatives all seem to pine for a simpler time that's largely fictitious and usually exists only in their childhood memories, not their grownup ones.

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