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"scott richard campbell www.myspace.com/ScottRichardCampbell"
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> wrote:
> Sci-fi storyline: A transhuman poplulation links up through a
> "nanoneocortex" and
> sophisticated wireless technology to a supreme technological being,
> that has designed
> its own brain architecture, and has unlimited capacities for learning
> and intelligence
>
> The God Machine will be a self-organizing sentient being based on
> principles
> that the "seeders" have layed down for it, including proper ethics.
> After acquiring
> staggering levels of knowledge, it will work for the benefit of the
> human and
> transhuman species, and the new "robotic" intelligences, that is, the
> new
> technointelligenced beings that are not of flesh and bones.
>
> The God Machine (I still don't have a good term for it, any
> suggestions?)
> will have the best data from all over the world to make its
> suggestions for
> what is best for the species and its individuals.
>
> If it is done properly, by the right group of people,(how about
> Google, Microsoft,
> Ray Kurzweil, Marvin Minsky, etc), we may be able to solve many, if
> not all,
> of the world's most significant problems through advanced technology
> applied
> with optimal planetary steward****p in mind, basically doing what is
> best for the human
> genome for survival and proliferation.
>
> The transhumans and their sup****ters will achieve their goals through
> proactive international business and political parties, influencing
> governments to bring about positive coevolution of humans,
> transhumans, and all life forms for the planet.
>
> Plausible? Dangerous? Ridiculous?
>
> Scott Richard Campbell
Read "Divergence", "CApacity", and "Recursion" by Tony Ballantyne. They
posit a future where an emergent AI ("THe Watcher") takes control of the
whole planet's future, with the express intent of creating the maximum
happiness for a post-human humanity. But who watches the Watcher? And
who decides whether contentment-on-average is actually what humanity
really needs?
It's seriously good stuff, and well thought-through.
Richard
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Richard Burke
<www.richardburke.co.uk>
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