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...at this can be done, but no actual proof. In other words, everyone believed that “undef” was the way to go until counter examples started showing up, and now everyone believes that “poison” is the way to go, which will be true until counter examples start showing up. We are jumping from one shaky precipice to another, we still are not yet on solid ground. Peter Lawrence.

...ndelof at epfl.ch url http://lesowww.epfl.ch/doctorants/lindelof/ weblog http://visnet.ch/~lindelof/smartbuildings/ -------------------------------------------------- Sigh. I like to think it's just the Linux people who want to be on the "leading edge" so bad they walk right off the precipice. (Craig E. Groeschel)

...thout torture or forcing them to play games all day or even without cryogenic freezing, as Minority Report suggested might be "more humane" than cards. Most likely we'd wind up in a place that shunned things like "engineering happiness" and fail to see just how dangerous the precipice we stand on really is. I joke often about a boy in his basement making a kiss-box; but the truth is we could wind up in a world where Hamas has their own virtual world where they've taken control of Jerusalem and we could be in a place where Jeffrey Dammer has his own little world--and without...

...tting the gist," that overcoming this barrier is going to make the world a better place very quickly because we can, and we should, and we want to... at least I'm pretty sure that's what we want. Need feedback, need public discussion, need to see that we are approaching a sort of "precipice" except there is no fiery lake or bottomless pit--what we are approaching is the Singularity, and it's inevitable--just as it's inevitable that it will have a positive impact on our world and our way of life--all the more positive as more people participate in directing the course of o...