Building Gods or Building Our Potential Exterminators?
An essay by Hugo de Garis, The Kurzweil Library, dated 26 February 2001. The Kurzweil Library copy states 'Originally published February 26, 2001 on KurzweilAI.net.'.
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- Succession by machines would be acceptable or desirableDe Garis's essay of 2001 states that, for him, the human species being wiped out is a lesser tragedy than artilects never being born, and that denying the creation of the first true artilect would be a "cosmic" tragedy.2001-02-26 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Succession by machines would be acceptable or desirable: propositions page →
- Conflict over building superhuman machinesDe Garis's essay of 2001 states that humanity will split into two bitterly opposed groups over building artilects, and that he sees no way out of a war with billions of dead.2001-02-26 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Conflict over building superhuman machines: propositions page →
- Superiority by many orders of magnitudeDe Garis's essay of 2001 states that the potential intelligence of artilects could be trillions of trillions of trillions of times greater than human intelligence.2001-02-26 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Superiority by many orders of magnitude: propositions page →
- Machine intelligence as a physical or cosmic processDe Garis's essay of 2001 states that it would be a cosmic tragedy for humanity to freeze evolution at the human level, setting this against the age of the universe and its trillion trillion stars.2001-02-26 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Machine intelligence as a physical or cosmic process: propositions page →
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