Tuesday, January 29, 2008

god's first whim

I've been thinking about the singularity a lot and I've been meaning to pick up Kurzweil's book on the subject. What strikes me is how opaque it is; one can infer nothing past it. It's like this:

What's interesting is that Kurzweil presumes that the progress continues in the accelerating manner even after the singularity begins. We ca make no such assumptions. If we can assume "wise control" we can't presume to know what that would entail. It may be very well that our newly invented Demigod masters may unanimously find it unwise to continue towards omnipotence. God is dangerous. If God is born, the fate of the entire world depends on God's first whim.

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