Building political influence versus building wealth

Building political influence versus building wealth. Altering information in minds of many humans to agree that you have value - this is influence. Altering the state of computers to register what money or assets you own - this is wealth. Both are building (transferring) power by altering a network state.

Machines and humans at the same level of intelligence

It's funny how people seems to skip over the period where human intelligence will be about the same as machine. They tend to go higher or lower. We're probably going to be working together for a while once machines are as intelligent as we are. Then both of us will be evolving artificially, not sure what the result will be.

Robots

If you look at the world in hundreds of millions of years instead of hundreds... there are a lot of changes in the dominant organism, and that's progress. Sort of playing devil's advocate here - but every organism, even the robots should have a chance to go beyond. As in individual, I toy with the idea of finding some way to survive, sneaking past... but those who think humanity 2014 will survive forever probably just need to get real. That would be like bacteria cells dominating the planet forever. Probably better off making friends with robots.

That said, I'm quite opposed to using department of defense money or anything like that for research. If we learn to attack our own species first, that's just being silly.



> Full article...
> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/stephen-hawking-transcendence-looks-at-the-implications-of-artificial-intelligence--but-are-we-taking-ai-seriously-enough-9313474.html
>