That deleted comment was mine. My intention was to trigger some argumentation, but then @feral wrote something that sounded like he had a much more formed opinion that I did, so my comment felt unneeded. anyway, deleting it was such a bad call, sorry about that. lesson learned.
anyway, for the record and the curious, here it is (snatched it back from my cache):
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But to imagine that that self-aware technology will be anything but symbiotic with us is truly crazy.
Why is it absurd? I'm not arguing one way or the other, I'm just interested. I know very little about Ray Kurzweil's singularity theory (or AI research for that matter), the little I know doesn't sound that implausible. But it does sound quite dark, so if there's a reason why it's truly crazy then I would joyously hear it.
Edit: to be clear here, crazy or not crazy, I do not endorse violence.
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