Re: you make a big assumption that our descendants will be the ones to play with the dangerous stuff and that they will be more intelligent for some reason.
I doubt it. You are probably misinterpreting what I mean by “our” or “descendants”. Future living organisms will be descended from existing ones—that’s about all I mean.
Re: That seems to acknowledge the intelligence / nanotech race condition that is of so much concern to singularitarians.
I figure we will have AI before we have much in the way of nanotechnology—if that’s what you mean.
Building minds is much easier than building bodies. For one thing, you only need a tiny number of component types for a mind.
However, rather obviously the technologies will feed of each other—mutually accelerating each other’s development.
Re: you make a big assumption that our descendants will be the ones to play with the dangerous stuff and that they will be more intelligent for some reason.
I doubt it. You are probably misinterpreting what I mean by “our” or “descendants”. Future living organisms will be descended from existing ones—that’s about all I mean.
Re: That seems to acknowledge the intelligence / nanotech race condition that is of so much concern to singularitarians.
I figure we will have AI before we have much in the way of nanotechnology—if that’s what you mean.
Building minds is much easier than building bodies. For one thing, you only need a tiny number of component types for a mind.
However, rather obviously the technologies will feed of each other—mutually accelerating each other’s development.