My own suspicion is that a stand-alone artificial mind will be more a tool of narrow utility than something especially apocalyptic.
Jamais CascioThe idea of sustainability can imply there is one perfect, unchanging future, if only we could work out how to get there. Resilience might be more useful, in that it assumes a dynamic environment and that perfection is impossible. You need to design systems to accommodate failure rather than eliminate it. By trying to be perfect, many visions of sustainability are quite brittle
Jamais CascioCrackdowns on Internet content make clear the need for an anonymized Web. Now, someone just needs to implement it.
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