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[flipper44]

Or, as Ray Kurzweil thinks, humans can:

Mr Kurzweil, meanwhile, believes that machines will improve us, and even help us become better humans.

“What’s actually happening is [machines] are powering all of us. They’re making us smarter. They may not yet be inside our bodies, but, by the 2030s, we will connect our neocortex, the part of our brain where we do our thinking, to the cloud.

“We’re going to get more neocortex, we’re going to be funnier, we’re going to be better at music. We’re going to be sexier. We’re really going to exemplify all the things that we value in humans to a greater degree.”

[CogDiss 1188X]

Since you brought it up, I guess I’ll post the link to “Why The Future Doesn’t Need Us,” since I had tracked it down but decided against posting it at the last minute.

https://www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2

I haven’t heard much regarding any progress Bill Joy might have made in trying to get some commitment to controls around the unfettered use of these technologies (genetic engineering, computer science/AI and nanotechnology). Last I remember, he became ostracized in the technology circles he once was clearly a leader of.

It struck me at the time that any progress along the lines Joy was pushing for would be too little, too late. Too many powerful forces (the prospect of greater elite control and a lot of money to be made) going in one direction, while the short term benefits were quite compelling for the masses but the long-term threat too far away and theoretical.