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   Sir Frederick to All   
   Re: On Ray Kurzweil   
   19 Mar 06 04:01:51   
   
   XPost: alt.philosophy, alt.atheism   
   From: mmcneill@fuzzysys.com   
      
   I hope Kurzweil is correct, as I judge the primate folk   
   to be rigid and ad hoc and temporary.   
      
   Elsewhere Kurzweil has been judged by others as a con man.   
   Perhaps.   
      
   An interesting futurology type blog is here :   
   http://www.betterhumans.com/   
      
   Here is another book on the Singularity :   
   "The Artilect War: Cosmists Vs. Terrans: A Bitter Controversy Concerning   
   Whether Humanity Should Build Godlike Massively Intelligent   
   Machines   
   by Hugo de Garis   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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