Using Technology to Deepen Democracy, Using Democracy to Ensure Technology Benefits Us All
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Using Technology to Deepen Democracy, Using Democracy to Ensure Technology Benefits Us All
"LOVE LOVE LOVE your futorological brickbats! Love them! You are in fine company with Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary with these." -- Paulina Borsook
"Devoted to highly rhetorical nitpicking, but it is fun to read." -- Chris Mooney
"Rather close but correct reading." -- Evgeny Morozov
"Mean, but true." -- Annalee Newitz
"Dale Carrico's skewering of the salvific pretensions of Silicon Valley's soi disant savior/founders never disappoints." -- Frank Pasquale
"Pretty breathless, but I guess it had to be said." -- Bruce Sterling
"An essential reality check for those who are too entranced by transhumanism to notice the sordid reality behind the curtain." -- Charlie Stross
2 comments:
> So just to mine, we have to develop (a) technologies to mine orders
> of magnitude more quickly than currently exists (b) with autonomous
> robots that (c) are capable of self-replication from scratch,
> that is, by smelting metals and fabricating the other materials
> necessary from the raw materials of Mercury. And not just robot
> replication – the robots will also have to be able to autonomously
> fabricate, from scratch, the solar collectors needed to bootstrap
> the energy to keep mining Mercury.
Not to worry. The exponentially self-improving Goertzel-Yudkowsky
AI will figure it out in no time. (After, of course, it figures out
how to resurrect Ray Kurzweil's dad.)
> No, George. Not, really. Really NOT. Not at all.
> Not even conceivably, where "conceivable" refers to
> something other than the sorts of fancies that arise
> unbidden in the mind while one is masturbating.
Hm. Speaking of bathroom reading material, maybe before
the human race is forced to go on an energy diet,
Diet Smith will come to the rescue.
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/images/users/uploads/21562/Diet.jpg
Or Moon Maid.
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