The Artilect War: Cosmists vs. Terrans
A book by Hugo de Garis, Author's site, dated 2005. The author's books page (profhugodegaris.wordpress.com/books/) states 'This book was published in 2005'; the PDF read states no date and was created 2014-03-17.
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- The Artilect War: Cosmists vs. Terrans: A Bitter Controversy Concerning Whether Humanity Should Build Godlike Massively Intelligent Machines Author's site (profhugodegaris.wordpress.com), free PDF of the book published by ETC Publications in 2005 · published 2005 · Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 44a3365a48c4caf1283939376a7e7b6937bab68acf6cabd940595f8f594ab3b2). Author-posted electronic version (PDF creation date 2014-03-17, uploaded under /2011/04/); the PDF states no edition or date; the author's books page states the book was published in 2005. Wording identity with the 2005 printing not verified.
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- Machines succeed humans as the leading intelligenceDe Garis's book The Artilect War (2005) discusses what follows if artilects become the next dominant species, whether or not human beings survive, and calls the resulting age the "artilect era".2005 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Machines succeed humans as the leading intelligence: propositions page →
- Succession by machines would be acceptable or desirableDe Garis's book The Artilect War (2005) states that in his heart he is a "Cosmist", that he and others who share that view are prepared to run "the terrible risk of the extermination of the human species" to build artilects, and that not building them would be the greater tragedy.2005 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Succession by machines would be acceptable or desirable: propositions page →
- Human minds transferred into machinesDe Garis's book The Artilect War (2005), replying to a reader's letter, states that the brain may in future be scanned and its contents downloaded into a hyper-computer, which could then be made into an artilect.2005 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Human minds transferred into machines: propositions page →
- Conflict over building superhuman machinesDe Garis's book The Artilect War (2005) states that the 21st century will be dominated by whether to build artilects, that humanity will split into two increasingly bitterly opposed political groups, and that the opposition between them makes a major conflict more likely.2005 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Conflict over building superhuman machines: propositions page →
- Superiority by many orders of magnitudeDe Garis's book The Artilect War (2005) states that an artilect could have an intelligence trillions of trillions of trillions of times the human level, and that with quantum computing these numbers are far too small.2005 · 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 book The Artilect War (2005) states that biological civilizations elsewhere have almost certainly built artilects to supersede them, and that to those he labels "the Cosmists" not building artilects would freeze evolution at the human level.2005 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Machine intelligence as a physical or cosmic process: propositions page →
- Machine intelligence spreads beyond EarthDe Garis's book The Artilect War (2005) states that an artilect could be built from the material of the asteroid belt and could take the form of a sphere around a star absorbing its energy.2005 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Machine intelligence spreads beyond Earth: propositions page →
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