Thursday, October 11, 2007

"Uploading minds" to solve overpopulation

Nanotechnology Now

Wednesday (July 25th...) at Transvision 2007, Marvin Minsky, the artificial intelligence guru who heads up MIT's Media Lab, puckishly suggested we could solve any population problem by uploading the minds of 10 billion people and running them on a computer that occupies a few cubic meters and costs only a few hundred dollars to run.

Source:
reason.com

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