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G*rd*n gcf at panix.com
Tue Jul 13 08:06:50 EST 1999


| ...

uj797 at victoria.tc.ca (Arthur T. Murray):
| http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix/vinge/vinge-sing.html Vinge
| argues in the most important AI document ever published, "Techno-
| logical Singularity," that the advent of AI is unavoidable, and so
| even though human society maybe *should* stop AI in its tracks, I
| take comfort from Vinge's persuasive argument of inevitability.
| ...

He doesn't say what he means by "intelligence", so it is
uncertain what it is that is inevitable.  Indeed, I would
say _mysterious_.  He seems to think it is something like
high-octane gasoline, but I'm just guessing.

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