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<p><span style="left: 34.29%; top: 21.8%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*20.04px); font-family: serif;
transform: scaleX(0.964264);" role="presentation" dir="ltr"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://agi-conf.org/2008/artilectwar.pdf">https://agi-conf.org/2008/artilectwar.pdf</a><br>
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<p><span style="left: 34.29%; top: 21.8%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*20.04px); font-family: serif;
transform: scaleX(0.964264);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">THE
ARTILECT WAR</span><br role="presentation">
<span style="left: 36.1%; top: 27.38%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*20.04px); font-family: serif;
transform: scaleX(0.85707);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">Cosmists
vs. Terrans</span><br role="presentation">
<span style="left: 21.49%; top: 32.96%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*20.04px); font-family: serif;
transform: scaleX(0.849251);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">A
Bitter Controversy Concerning Whether</span><br
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<span style="left: 28.12%; top: 35.69%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*20.04px); font-family: serif;
transform: scaleX(0.862332);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">Humanity
Should Build Godlike</span><br role="presentation">
<span style="left: 28.83%; top: 38.42%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*20.04px); font-family: serif;
transform: scaleX(0.855131);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">Massively
Intelligent Machines</span><br role="presentation">
<span style="left: 41.24%; top: 42.82%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*9.96px); font-family: serif; transform:
scaleX(0.926097);" role="presentation" dir="ltr"><br>
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<p><span style="left: 41.24%; top: 42.82%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*9.96px); font-family: serif; transform:
scaleX(0.926097);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">Prof. Dr. Hugo
de GARIS</span><br role="presentation">
<span style="left: 36.95%; top: 44.19%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*9.96px); font-family: serif; transform:
scaleX(0.896987);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">Director of the
“China-Brain Project”</span><br role="presentation">
<span style="left: 38.77%; top: 45.56%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*9.96px); font-family: serif; transform:
scaleX(0.852296);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">Institute of
Artificial Intelligence,</span><br role="presentation">
<span style="left: 38.56%; top: 46.93%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*9.96px); font-family: serif; transform:
scaleX(0.852837);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">Department of
Computer Science,</span><br role="presentation">
<span style="left: 34.65%; top: 48.28%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*9.96px); font-family: serif; transform:
scaleX(0.869577);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">School of
Information Science & Technology,</span><br
role="presentation">
<span style="left: 40.54%; top: 49.65%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*9.96px); font-family: serif; transform:
scaleX(0.855067);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">Xiamen
University, Xiamen,</span><br role="presentation">
<span style="left: 41.83%; top: 51.02%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*9.96px); font-family: serif; transform:
scaleX(0.882342);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">Fujian
Province, China.</span><br role="presentation">
<span style="left: 39.97%; top: 52.39%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*9.96px); font-family: serif; transform:
scaleX(0.856832);" role="presentation" dir="ltr"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:profhugodegaris@yahoo.com">profhugodegaris@yahoo.com</a></span></p>
<p><br role="presentation">
<span style="left: 27.64%; top: 57.22%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*8.04px); font-family: serif; transform:
scaleX(0.934213);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">Abstract</span><span
style="left: 32.66%; top: 56.69%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*14.04px); font-family: serif;"
role="presentation" dir="ltr">.</span><span style="left: 33.25%;
top: 56.69%; font-size: calc(var(--scale-factor)*14.04px);
font-family: serif;" role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span
style="left: 33.99%; top: 57.22%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*8.04px); font-family: serif; transform:
scaleX(0.837354);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">This paper
claims that the “species dominance” issue will dominate our</span><br
role="presentation">
<span style="left: 27.64%; top: 58.47%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*8.04px); font-family: serif; transform:
scaleX(0.929896);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">global politics
later this century. Humanity will be bitterly divided over the</span><br
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<span style="left: 27.64%; top: 59.57%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*8.04px); font-family: serif; transform:
scaleX(0.820371);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">question</span><span
style="left: 32.21%; top: 59.57%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*8.04px); font-family: serif;"
role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span style="left:
33.24%; top: 59.57%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*8.04px); font-family: serif; transform:
scaleX(0.793976);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">whether</span><span
style="left: 37.56%; top: 59.57%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*8.04px); font-family: serif;"
role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span style="left: 38.6%;
top: 59.57%; font-size: calc(var(--scale-factor)*8.04px);
font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.837272);"
role="presentation" dir="ltr">to</span><span style="left:
39.65%; top: 59.57%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*8.04px); font-family: serif;"
role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span style="left:
40.68%; top: 59.57%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*8.04px); font-family: serif; transform:
scaleX(0.824359);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">build</span><span
style="left: 43.45%; top: 59.57%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*8.04px); font-family: serif;"
role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span style="left:
44.47%; top: 59.57%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*8.04px); font-family: serif; transform:
scaleX(0.868341);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">godlike,</span><span
style="left: 48.82%; top: 59.57%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*8.04px); font-family: serif;"
role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span style="left:
49.87%; top: 59.57%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*8.04px); font-family: serif; transform:
scaleX(0.841616);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">massively</span><span
style="left: 55.24%; top: 59.57%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*8.04px); font-family: serif;"
role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span style="left:
56.26%; top: 59.57%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*8.04px); font-family: serif; transform:
scaleX(0.829411);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">intelligent</span><span
style="left: 61.71%; top: 59.57%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*8.04px); font-family: serif;"
role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span style="left:
62.77%; top: 59.57%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*8.04px); font-family: serif; transform:
scaleX(0.827263);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">machines,</span><span
style="left: 68.18%; top: 59.57%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*8.04px); font-family: serif;"
role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span style="left: 69.2%;
top: 59.57%; font-size: calc(var(--scale-factor)*8.04px);
font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.836477);"
role="presentation" dir="ltr">called</span><br
role="presentation">
<span style="left: 27.64%; top: 60.65%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*8.04px); font-family: serif; transform:
scaleX(0.906057);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">“artilects”
(artificial intellects) which with 21</span><span style="left:
53.74%; top: 60.65%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*8.04px); font-family: serif;"
role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span style="left:
53.76%; top: 60.5%; font-size: calc(var(--scale-factor)*5.04px);
font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.791325);"
role="presentation" dir="ltr">st</span><span style="left: 54.3%;
top: 60.5%; font-size: calc(var(--scale-factor)*5.04px);
font-family: serif;" role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span
style="left: 54.97%; top: 60.65%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*8.04px); font-family: serif; transform:
scaleX(0.886183);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">century
technologies will have</span><br role="presentation">
<span style="left: 27.64%; top: 61.75%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*8.04px); font-family: serif; transform:
scaleX(0.87045);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">mental
capacities trillions of trillions of times above the human
level. Humanity</span><br role="presentation">
<span style="left: 27.64%; top: 62.85%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*8.04px); font-family: serif; transform:
scaleX(0.890326);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">will split into
3 major camps, the “Cosmists” (in favor of building artilects),
the</span><br role="presentation">
<span style="left: 27.64%; top: 63.93%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*8.04px); font-family: serif; transform:
scaleX(0.85707);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">“Terrans”
(opposed to building artilects), and the “Cyborgs” (who want to
become</span><br role="presentation">
<span style="left: 27.64%; top: 65.03%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*8.04px); font-family: serif; transform:
scaleX(0.865888);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">artilects
themselves by adding components to their own human brains). A
major</span><br role="presentation">
<span style="left: 27.64%; top: 66.13%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*8.04px); font-family: serif; transform:
scaleX(0.873924);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">“artilect war”
between the Cosmists and the Terrans, late in the 21</span><span
style="left: 64.81%; top: 66.13%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*8.04px); font-family: serif;"
role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span style="left:
64.81%; top: 65.98%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*5.04px); font-family: serif; transform:
scaleX(0.829896);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">st</span><span
style="left: 65.37%; top: 65.98%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*5.04px); font-family: serif;"
role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span style="left:
65.84%; top: 66.13%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*8.04px); font-family: serif; transform:
scaleX(0.845764);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">century will</span><br
role="presentation">
<span style="left: 27.64%; top: 67.21%; font-size:
calc(var(--scale-factor)*8.04px); font-family: serif; transform:
scaleX(0.849731);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">kill not
millions but billions of people.</span></p>
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