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> This time, should we expect another war? You just reminded me of de Garis' "Artilect War": https://www.forbes.com/2009/06/18/cosmist-terran-cyborgist-opinio
by T-A 4y ago
> This time, should we expect another war?
You just reminded me of de Garis' "Artilect War":
https://www.forbes.com/2009/06/18/cosmist-terran-cyborgist-opinions-contributors-artificial-intelligence-09-hugo-de-garis.html?sh=617ff79b2d4e https://www.forbes.com/2009/06/18/cosmist-terran-cyborgist-o...
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221328932_The_Artilect_War_Cosmists_vs_Terrans_A_Bitter_Controversy_Concerning_Whether_Humanity_Should_Build_Godlike_Massively_Intelligent_Machines https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221328932_The_Artil...
- airstrike 4y agoThe guy seems a little.. unhinged, based on what's in his Wikipedia article, but we may very well go down that path at some point (just not in the way he predicted with Moore's law taking us to atom-sized bits, embryofactoring and whatnot, at least not in the 2020s or 2030s...) > Humanity will split into 3 major camps, the “Cosmists” (in favor of building artilects), the “Terrans” (opposed to building artilects), and the “Cyborgs” (who want to become artilects themselves by adding components to their own human brains) This did remind me of Civilization: Beyond Earth... https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Sid_Meier%27s_Civilization:_Beyond_Earth https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Sid_Meier%27s_Civilizat...