From: Ben Goertzel (ben@goertzel.org)
Date: Fri Jun 04 2004 - 18:06:54 MDT
> Some of your points seem valid to me, David, but I
> think you do not understand that this is no normal
> investment! If the SIAI effort fails and UFAI results,
> it's razor blades all around. If it succeeds, the
> investors will not get their money back. They will
> live in a world so transformed that economics as they
> knew it is without meaning. What will money mean in a
> world where you can go out in the yard and say, "I'd
> like a Bugatti" and it assembles itself out of the
> dirt?
> Tom
Tom,
There's no question that "the positive Singularity" is worthy of
investment.
The question is whether donating to SIAI will really have the effect of
increasing the odds of a positive Singularity, or whether some other use
of one's money could have a greater useful impact.
-- Ben G
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