From: Ben Goertzel (ben@goertzel.org)
Date: Sat Jun 22 2002 - 16:00:58 MDT
> Oh come on and take a stand :-) If you were betting money you would bet
> on AI before perfect anti-aging/anti-disease/cryonics + personal
> spacecraft
> right?
Yeah, sure...
I think cryonics could possibly be cracked before AI if $100 billion were
put into each.
But cryonics research is harder to do on a shoestring budget, so many fewer
people are working on it -- even fewer than on general intelligence, sadly!
On the other hand, with virtually unlimited funding, I think AI would come
about before robust anti-aging/anti-disease
I don't know much about the technological challenges involved in making
affordable personal spacecraft. I'll buy one once it becomes available
though ;>
> > I have thought about this very seriously and I think that
> superhuman AI is a
> > MORE risky path than human uploads. There are a lot more unknowns with
> > superhuman AI; we are dealing with a different sort of embodiment AND a
> > different sort of mind all at once.
>
> A human upload that modifies its mind into transhumanity has both the same
> problems.
Agreed, of course... but in Eugen's future, there could be laws preventing
uploads from transcending.
Yucky to think about!
ben
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