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Article #2058Re: Technological Singularity
From: James Sharman
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 00:00
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 00:00
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ak@muc.de wrote in message ... >"James Sharman" <james@exaflop.demon.co.uk> writes: > >> It is not necisary for the superiour to kill the inferior. The basic >> premise of natural selection tells as that the superiour will eventualy >> replace the inferior. Even an incredibly small increase in proberbility of >> servival of the superiour humans will (given enough generations) eventualy >> result in the replacement of 'homo-inferious' > >But the 'homo-inferious' can still catch on by simply having more children. >I think he has good chances. > >-A. Not really, the possiblity ofincreased ofspring is open to the superior species as much as it is to the inferior and it is not necisarily an advantage to have more of you, it creates competition for resources, presuming the superior are in some manner more capable of competing for resources then a 'devide and conqer' approch from the lesser may actualy hasten their demise. Going back to the original issue of actual genocide it is also quite worrying if we look at human history. Presuming these genetic supermen retain at least a limited psycological similarity then a more direct conflict is possible. History teaches us that having humans around who just belive they are superior to us is very dangerous, let alone if they actualy were superior. On a completely different track, who is to say that the eventual replacement of humanity with an enhanced version is not the way to go. It may be possible to view this development as a bizzar twist on evolution. You should also rememeber that these supermen will be our decendants and it does not take to much for us to wish the best for the future. James. thag: ook, look at them with clubs and fire thog: They replacing us, must put a stop to it.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd5f7,3de6aaf66239df89 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd5f7,public X-Google-Thread: fd6dd,3de6aaf66239df89 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd6dd,public X-Google-Thread: 10461e,3de6aaf66239df89 X-Google-Attributes: gid10461e,public X-Google-Thread: 102b75,3de6aaf66239df89 X-Google-Attributes: gid102b75,public X-Google-Thread: 1045ed,3de6aaf66239df89 X-Google-Attributes: gid1045ed,public From: "James Sharman" <james@exaflop.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Technological Singularity Date: 1998/06/05 Message-ID: <897055411.10293.0.nnrp-08.c2d9a433@news.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 359834818 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp051.sci.co.uk:194.217.164.51 References: <357011e7.0@news.victoria.tc.ca> <goCd1.854$On1.3424263@ptah.visi.com> <6l7ea1$p9d$1@andros.cygnus.com> <3577AC63.70B2@remove.muenchen.this.org.junk> <897046320.6598.0.nnrp-08.c2d9a433@news.demon.co.uk> <m3ra14ne5f.fsf@fred.muc.de> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 897055411 nnrp-08:10293 NO-IDENT dhcp051.sci.co.uk:194.217.164.51 Newsgroups: sci.econ,bionet.neuroscience,comp.ai,comp.arch,comp.robotics.misc