This is almost amusing.

Blindness isn’t only a physical disability.

A willful blindness at that: Strategic Collapse at the Army War College

By Floyd Abrams

Wednesday, January 14th 2009, 4:00 AM

Almost 500 years ago, on the wall of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses, characterizing as “madness” the notion that papal pardons could absolve individuals for their sins. As viewed from Rome, Luther had maligned, even defamed, the church. Luther was eventually excommunicated. His conduct ultimately led to the creation of a Protestant Church in Germany and a Reformation throughout Europe.

It is difficult to believe that in the 21st century anyone would seriously propose that conduct such as Luther’s should be deemed illegal. But a few weeks ago, the General Assembly of the United Nations took a giant step in that direction. It adopted – for the fourth straight year – a resolution prepared by the 57-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference calling upon all UN nations to adopt legislation banning the “defamation” of religion. Spurred by the Danish cartoons of 2005, some of which portrayed the Prophet Muhammed in a manner deemed offensive by the OIC, the resolution was opposed by the United States, most European nations, Japan, India and a number of other nations.

Nonetheless, it has now been adopted.

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/01/14/2009-01-14_unacceptable_censorship_the_united_natio.html

Ultimately we have a human government employee trying to make sense of his godlike input so that he can hurl down the godlike output.
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In Christ we have have access to the mind of God.

The conclusion by both is that we are creating (through Artificial Intelligence) the “more advanced species that will replace us” (”…no intelligent species in history has survived contact with a more advanced species”).

Actually, I’d object to the premise that the AIs would be more advanced. There is a little chance that the AIs can autonomously evolve their intelligence beyond endowment we initially provide. They would be constricted by logic and patterns they were programmed with. Them may be gazillions and they would still not be able to overcome their bounding box.

The more likely case would be a “grey goo” in which we drown. Not always a superior kind is an impetus for a demise of another kind. An example may be Islamic Grey Goo, that could potentially destroy a superior culture by their sheer numbers. Mankind could be knocked out by lowly virus, tomorrow. Or wiped out by a dumb rock!

As for survival vis-a-vis contact with a more advanced species, that may have actually happened in remote past and we are still here, mayhaps even because of it.

Take us, for example. We are super predators. We effectively rule over the dominion of animals. But as we become more aware of relationships and complexities around us, at least as a species, we become more intelligent and tend to mitigate our detrimental effect on the less advanced species. We would still be predators, People Eating Tasty Animals, as far as can be projected into the future, but will learn to manage our prey better.

Neva herd of him.

Oh! You did not mean Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski, perchance?

Borderline schizophrenics are often brilliant, in some particular focus, but in other aspects they may as dumb as rock.

I used to think like that, too, but not so much any more. All this stuff is so subtle, the possibilities so endless and the technology moving so quick that second rate minds, defensive ones who just aren’t open to the almost limitless possibilities will always be so far behind that the rest of us will have developed antidotes/countermeasures before or very shortly after the drongoes become a problem with yesterday’s technology.

The conclusion by both is that we are creating (through Artificial Intelligence) the “more advanced species that will replace us” (”…no intelligent species in history has survived contact with a more advanced species”).

The “guest author” wrote one of the most brilliant, logical essays I’ve ever read…we know him, as, “The Unibomber.”