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acceleratingfuture.com - 11/29/2008
The Challenge of Self-Replication
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In my last post, Mitchell Porter (whose mailing list postings I’ve been reading for nearly a decade), argues that my vision for a Neo-Carboniferous world is “deliberately low-key”, and he paraphrases it as, “Hey, greens! You shouldn’t fear us robot-swarm, ...

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Links for 28th November 2008
Velcro City Tourist Board — Fresh from the clogged tubes of teh intarwubs… The Challenge of Self-Replication "As for the challenge of a WMD-fabber on every desktop, I’ve argued for the solution before, and it’s still the same — we require a benevolent singleton. A top-level decision making entity that can act with extreme speed and reliability to put down threats before they emerge. Naturally, the unimaginative might directly associate such an agency with communist dictators, but what I am talking about is as different from a communist dictator as an ...

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