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From: bc@Apollon.nswc.navy.mil (Bruce Copeland)
Subject: Re: Could AI be destructive
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In article <4a6b6j$fp@infoserv.rug.ac.be>, Tom Demuyt <tdemuyt> writes:
|> I think you are wrong, as the next intelligent creature beside human is
|> the chimp and/or the dolphin,(which we dont have to fear), any creature that
|> would usurp us, would be some numb, non-intelligent creature/virus, with the 
|> only ability to destroy, as such, life could never get away from this planet, 
|> and spread, and that would be bad, as life is so sparse in this universe.
|> -- 

Who says this replacement has to be carbon-based life? Evolution of silicon
is occurring at a rapid rate. It may take hundreds of years, but that's 
where I'd put my money.

Bruce
