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Dialogue 11.1

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I think your paper is well written, and stakes out an extreme position with gusto, which is a worthwhile thing. You do an interesting job of arguing why the "benevolent Global Brain as de facto world organizing principle" is a plausible scenario.... This is no small feat, so congratulations...
On the other hand, I don't think you present a strong argument that this is a particularly likely scenario -- as opposed to various disaster scenarios in which individual Artificial General Intelligence systems become super-intelligent and dominant before such a richly flourishing Global Brain emerges...
Book: The End of the Beginning: Life, Society and Economy on the Brink of the Singularity
Pages: 359-372
ISBN:978-0692457665
Publication year:2015
Keywords:global brain
  • VABB Id: c:vabb:395178
  • ORCID: /0000-0001-5823-5898/work/54791001