MichaelAnissimov comments on On Being Decoherent - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MichaelAnissimov 28 April 2008 01:16:13AM 4 points [-]

Greg Egan also said:

"Though a handful of self-described Transhumanists are thinking rationally about real prospects for the future, the overwhelming majority might as well belong to a religious cargo cult based on the notion that self-modifying AI will have magical powers."

Maybe it's time to stop holding up Greg Egan like some kind of icon.

"But what do all these posts have to do with your Artificial Intelligence work?"

Some of us are in fact pleased by how closely this does have to do with your AI work.