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We should not be privileging the singularity hypothesis | Alan Winfield via The Guardian
By worrying unnecessarily [about the Singularity hypothesis] I think we’re falling into a trap: the fallacy of privileging the hypothesis. And – perhaps worse – taking our eyes off other risks that we should really be worrying about: like man-made climate change, or bioterrorism. Let me illustrate what I mean. Imagine I ask you to consider the possibility that we invent faster than light travel sometime in the next 100 years. Then I worry you by outlining all sorts of nightmare scenarios that might follow from the misuse of this technology. At the end of it you’ll be thinking: my god, never mind climate change, we need to stop all FTL research right now.
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Alan Winfield
is Professor in robotics at UWE Bristol. He communicates about science on his personal blog.
Alan Winfield
is Professor in robotics at UWE Bristol. He communicates about science on his personal blog.
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