From: Russell Wallace (russell.wallace@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Aug 08 2006 - 07:19:48 MDT
On 8/8/06, Ben Goertzel <ben@goertzel.org> wrote:
>
> In other words, it's a lot easier to convince educated, open-minded,
> non-religious people that
>
> "The Singularity is Coming ... Eventually ... If Humanity Doesn't
> Destroy Itself First"
>
> than that
>
> "The Singularity is Near"
>
> And while these two propositions are not that far off in terms of
> intellectual content, they are pretty far off in terms of pragmatic
> consequences...
>
I agree completely, and will add that the reason for the above is that the
first proposition is much more likely to be true :)
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