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Yahoo! Top Stories - Super-Robots Will Wipe Out Mankind!
by angus at 9:10 am EDT, May 10, 2004 |
I tend to agree with this assessment. The irony is clear. One must master technology without becoming dependent on it! ] "We are on the cusp of perfection of extreme evil -- an
] evil whose possibility spreads well beyond weapons of
] mass destruction," Joy warned recently in Wired magazine. Bill Joy makes the Weekly World News! |
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RE: Yahoo! Top Stories - Super-Robots Will Wipe Out Mankind!
by lclough at 2:05 pm EDT, May 10, 2004 |
angus wrote:
] I tend to agree with this assessment. The irony is clear. One
] must master technology without becoming dependent on it!
]
] ] "We are on the cusp of perfection of extreme evil -- an
] ] evil whose possibility spreads well beyond weapons of
] ] mass destruction," Joy warned recently in Wired magazine.
]
] Bill Joy makes the Weekly World News! That quote appears to be from Bill Joy, Wired 8.04, April 2000. To the WWN, that is "recently"? or is there a more recent Wired article? |
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RE: Yahoo! Top Stories - Super-Robots Will Wipe Out Mankind!
by Jeremy at 10:15 pm EDT, May 10, 2004 |
lclough wrote:
]angus wrote:
]] I tend to agree with this assessment. The irony is clear.
]] One must master technology without becoming dependent on it!
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]]] "We are on the cusp of perfection of extreme evil --
]]] an evil whose possibility spreads well beyond weapons of
]]] mass destruction," Joy warned recently in Wired magazine.
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]] Bill Joy makes the Weekly World News!
]
] That quote appears to be from Bill Joy, Wired 8.04, April
] 2000. To the WWN, that is "recently"? or is there a more
] recent Wired article? I thought the same thing. There is a more recent Wired article on Bill Joy -- an interview with him following his departure from Sun -- which appeared in Wired 11.12. The article is online at http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.12/billjoy_pr.html However, the quote in WWN is indeed from the 8.04 article. |
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RE: Yahoo! Top Stories - Super-Robots Will Wipe Out Mankind!
by Decius at 11:22 pm EDT, May 10, 2004 |
lclough wrote:
] That quote appears to be from Bill Joy, Wired 8.04, April
] 2000. To the WWN, that is "recently"? or is there a more
] recent Wired article? You're nitpicking a detail in a news magazine that regularly features alien invasions as it's top story. :) |
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RE: Yahoo! Top Stories - Super-Robots Will Wipe Out Mankind!
by lclough at 8:32 am EDT, May 11, 2004 |
Decius wrote:
] lclough wrote:
] ] That quote appears to be from Bill Joy, Wired 8.04, April
] ] 2000. To the WWN, that is "recently"? or is there a more
] ] recent Wired article?
]
] You're nitpicking a detail in a news magazine that regularly
] features alien invasions as it's top story. :) It's an interesting datapoint about the rate of diffusion of memes in different regions of information space. New ideas seem to be amplified promptly and rapidly in blogspace, more slowly in the more traditional media and sometimes real slowly to bottom feeders like WWN. Memestreams has a nice mixture of breaking news and more reflective references to items that have enduring interest or significance. |
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Yahoo! Top Stories - Super-Robots Will Wipe Out Mankind!
by dmv at 7:05 pm EDT, May 8, 2004 |
] "We are on the cusp of perfection of extreme evil -- an
] evil whose possibility spreads well beyond weapons of
] mass destruction," Joy warned recently in Wired magazine. Yes, it is the Weekly World News, but its still fun to kick Bill Joy. |
Yahoo! Top Stories - Super-Robots Will Wipe Out Mankind!
by Decius at 11:06 pm EDT, May 9, 2004 |
] "We are on the cusp of perfection of extreme evil -- an
] evil whose possibility spreads well beyond weapons of
] mass destruction," Joy warned recently in Wired magazine. Bill Joy makes the Weekly World News! |
Yahoo! Top Stories - Super-Robots Will Wipe Out Mankind!
by Rattle at 7:12 pm EDT, May 10, 2004 |
] "We are on the cusp of perfection of extreme evil -- an
] evil whose possibility spreads well beyond weapons of
] mass destruction," Joy warned recently in Wired magazine. Bill Joy makes the Weekly World News! Preparing to put tongue firmly into side of cheek. Ahem.. Just for the public record... I still think Bill Joy is wrong, but I do feel there is reason for concern. I will continue to help the process along. Long live "The Man" who oppresses me, long live "The Machine" who oppresses us all; At least until I see a major difference between the two. The worst the machines have done to me has been to make me wait on hold for a very long time, then hang up one me, forcing me to put my trust and time in the hands of the machines again. Man has done much worse to us all at one point or another. The definition of insanity being to do the same thing over and over again while expecting different results, the problem may very well be with Man and not the Machines.. We program them to do the same thing over and over, hence making them insane. Then, we get surprised when our errors come back at us with effects multiplied 10 fold. The Grey Goo. Really. Just remember how much The Grey Goo loves us. Take your left hand and salute your computer, say "sig bit!" Then take your right hand, salute your TV and say, "sig band!" Then after you have done that a few times, repeat "my god can beat up your god" 50 times while bowing at high speed. And most importantly, after that, if you find anyone who can't take a good joke in the face of total destruction (distraction?), beat them up. |
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