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David Brin
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A Pope Offers Hope… and a Dope Plans Our Rope…
Two items for this weekend posting as I prep for the FiRe Conference at UCSD and then the International Space Development Conference.
These two riffs may seem to be about different things. But they both ask the same question: “Can evolved beings – either us or AI – actually select for wisdom?
== The pontiff pontificates about bridging the era of AI ==
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The Postman
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Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2)
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1983
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The Uplift War (The Uplift Saga, #3)
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1987
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Sundiver (The Uplift Saga, #1)
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1980
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Foundation's Triumph (Second Foundation Trilogy, #3)
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Brightness Reef (Uplift Storm Trilogy, #1)
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Infinity's Shore (Uplift Storm Trilogy, #2)
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Earth
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Heaven's Reach (Uplift Storm Trilogy, #3)
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Existence
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“When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.”
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“It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.”
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I noticed you had a blurb for Hanson's Age of Em. Did you write anything more extensive about the work? I'd be interested in reading it, if so.
Thank you for accepting my friend request ... I am honoured.
Thank you for becoming my Goodreads friend.Eric
I enjoyed your quote from "Glory Season" about the 'practical things' you'd to ask the local wizard/sorceror to come up with.It reminded me of the advanced technological contributions to 13th century Poland provided by an inadvertent time traveller in "The Cross-Time Engineer" by Leo A. Frankowski (also "A Connecticutt Yankee at King Arthur's Court" for that matter).
Have you tried ny Jack McDevitt - his stories are a bit like a cross between Clive Cussler and Jack Vance, with the emphasis on Vance.
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