tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post1797859707447037780..comments2024-02-23T01:30:06.101-08:00Comments on Early Warning: Final Thoughts on the GF 2045 ConferenceStuart Stanifordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182839827506265860noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-19239540916756216602013-06-18T15:33:27.477-07:002013-06-18T15:33:27.477-07:00I'm just gonna say, if you take away the "...I'm just gonna say, if you take away the "wetware" - the body and brain - you are no longer human. Humans are by definition animals, great apes, that live and breathe and eat. <br /><br />I am not terribly surprised that religious people think that humans can be separated from the body, as nearly every religion provides for an afterlife and nearly every religion thinks humans are somehow "above" other animals.<br /><br />I don't buy it. If we DO come to the day that conciousness can somehow be transferred into a machine... Those that do so will cease to be human.Adam Schuetzlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07447074170522503338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-3662248111085751592013-06-18T09:32:18.834-07:002013-06-18T09:32:18.834-07:00I am more inclined to expect the evolution outline...I am more inclined to expect the evolution outlined by Charles Galton Darwin during the 50's. http://75.72.244.165/Sundark/cgdarwin.pdfRobert Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02389684132175725284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-23651763565656665652013-06-18T02:58:44.442-07:002013-06-18T02:58:44.442-07:00Well I continue to think it would be very useful i...Well I continue to think it would be very useful if energy-dense and reliable batteries were on the way, and I think thats going to take longer than 30 years to achieve in massive quantity.<br /><br />Thanks for attending and blogging, quite the marathon effort. I wouldn't be surprised if your account turns out to be the most interesting and balanced to emerge from it. A couple of days ago when I googled GF2045 your blog was the highest ranked site that had anything more than pre-event media releases/ads. Well done.<br /><br />Seems to me they left a few elephants in the room. If you could copy a human consciousness to a computer, operationally complete with sensory input from an avatar robot and speech and motion etc outputs, I don't know why you'd bother with the robot. Why not just i/o directly with other copied consciousnesses rather than the clunky robot that's scrap as soon as the battery runs down. But then you're straight into Greg Egan's Permutation City.. all fine till the NSA decides, with suitable secret oversight of course, that it needs to appropriate your exaflops to compete with the latest Chinese supercomputer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-58660987411448492902013-06-18T01:07:13.235-07:002013-06-18T01:07:13.235-07:00Stuart,
I'm a bit late, but thank you very mu...Stuart,<br /><br />I'm a bit late, but thank you very much for blogging this conference for us. I appreciate your summarization, and I agree with you about Iskov: the conference was not a waste of time.<br /><br />I'm left pretty much where I started out, though. The Singularity movement (or movements, plural) have a lot of belief (and a lot of beliefs), but few facts and no policy recommendations. Fortunately, we will have a few decades to figure things out.<br /><br />Once again, thanks for bring the conference to us.Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11939046017258198038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-21901142259959876072013-06-18T00:26:19.075-07:002013-06-18T00:26:19.075-07:00Personally I think that the level of vulgarity of ...Personally I think that the level of vulgarity of our time is somehow something that hadn't been seen before.yvesThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00225964326142677776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-24211775882368665102013-06-17T11:46:39.779-07:002013-06-17T11:46:39.779-07:00Me, personally, I continue to think that faster-th...Me, personally, I continue to think that faster-than-sound civilian air transportation is on the way. I also continue to think it's likely to take longer than 30 years to achieve in full.<br /><br />Michael Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10045827917076142231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-65232484494480575132013-06-17T10:11:16.020-07:002013-06-17T10:11:16.020-07:00Would a portable solar panel help you with your ba...Would a portable solar panel help you with your battery at these things? I usually sit next to an outlet -- and I bring an extension cord so others can plug in with me.Doyu Shoninhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00148504542232844586noreply@blogger.com