And actually the sooner we create Skynet - the better the chance we have to beat it. Because if we wait too long - that super fast hardware it will be running will could make it too hard to beat.;)
Or the better chance we have to learn live with it. James Hogan's 1979 book "The Two Faces of Tomorrow" details a plan to deliberately goad a small version of a self aware computer (named Spartacus) into self defense before they built the big version. When Spartacus learned that humans were even more frail than he and equally motivated by self preservation he chose to unilaterally lay down arms.
it's even harder for you to patch the program
that's running on someone else's server than it
is to patch a binary copy of a program running on
your own computer
Then I wonder which is less evil -- a proprietary binary running on your computer or SAAS based on open source running on someone else's computer.
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And actually the sooner we create Skynet - the better the chance we have to beat it. Because if we wait too long - that super fast hardware it will be running will could make it too hard to beat. ;)
Or the better chance we have to learn live with it. James Hogan's 1979 book "The Two Faces of Tomorrow" details a plan to deliberately goad a small version of a self aware computer (named Spartacus) into self defense before they built the big version. When Spartacus learned that humans were even more frail than he and equally motivated by self preservation he chose to unilaterally lay down arms.
it's even harder for you to patch the program that's running on someone else's server than it is to patch a binary copy of a program running on your own computer Then I wonder which is less evil -- a proprietary binary running on your computer or SAAS based on open source running on someone else's computer.
The pot calling the kettle white.
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