Did they field your questions?
Did they field your questions?
Stross did, Hanson said he doesn't like email interviews. But Stross didn't state his explicit permission that I am allowed to publish his answers. And since I was mainly interested in his opinion myself I didn't bother to ask him again. But I don't think he would be bothered at all if I provide an extract?
He seems to think that embodied cognition plays an important role. In other words, human intelligence is strongly dependent on physiology.
Further, as far as I understand him, he believes to some extent into the Kurzweil...
I periodically get email from folks who, having read "Accelerando", assume I am some kind of fire-breathing extropian zealot who believes in the imminence of the singularity, the uploading of the libertarians, and the rapture of the nerds. I find this mildly distressing, and so I think it's time to set the record straight and say what I really think.
Short version: Santa Claus doesn't exist.
- Charles Stross, Three arguments against the singularity, 2011-06-22
EDITED TO ADD: don't get your hopes up, this is pretty weak stuff.