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Sunday, August 15, 2010

Singularity Summit 2010: No place for human values in a 'posthuman' future? | ZDNet

Singularity Summit 2010: No place for human values in a 'posthuman' future? | ZDNet: "Scott then plugged the documentary, The Singularity Is Near, and presented the main point of his talk: it’s a paradoxical that the mind-bending vision of the singularity is going to lead to a triumph of human values rather than the extinction of what it means to be human. It is contradictory, he said. “The reality is that we don’t have a clue to where this is going. We don’t have the tools to know its character. We are flesh and blood. Human values are not going to survive in cyberspace.”"

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