I see nothing to prevent an artilect taking the side of the Terrans. After all,
some humans have taken the side of other primates in danger of extinction. A
Terran may see the lack of media attention to artilects as an indication of need
to keep a lid on military operations in this arena. (Cosmists here apparently
see it differently.)

As I see it, we should ask an artilect how to handle the emergence of artilects.
Mainstream media, which may see the issue in a similar way, has no story to
tell, until an actual artilect emerges.

De Garis writes of his concern for the time when artificial brains outperform
humans intellectually. In contrast, Kurzweil (_The Age of Spiritual Machines_)
writes of his enthusiasm for a future in which machines become "spiritual." If
Homo sapiens sapiens cannot produce another Buddha, Christ, Lao Tzu, Mohammed,
Socrates, Moses, Krishna, or other enlightened master, then it doesn't matter
whether the Terrans or the Cosmists prevail, because the human race has peaked,
and may as well rest in peace.

"Be a light unto yourself."
--Siddhartha Gautama

--J. R.
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Savage <a_lsavage@...>
To: Artilect@onelist.com <Artilect@onelist.com>
Date: Monday, February 14, 2000 8:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Artilect] Questions for the artilect group


>From: "Tony Savage" <a_lsavage@...>
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>The answer depends on whether you are a Terran or a Cosmist.
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>?Very cryptic.
>Are we not all Cosmists here?
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>Tony
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