Yudkowski's Shock Level Concept


	Yudkowski's Shock Level Concept

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3-17-2008 7:28 PM

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    <P align="left"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN><B>SL0:</B> </SPAN>
    The legendary average person is comfortable with modern
    technology - not so much the frontiers of modern technology, but the
    technology used in everyday life.  Most people, TV anchors,
    journalists, politicians.</FONT>
  </P></LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">
    <P align="left"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN><B>SL1:</B> </SPAN>
    Virtual reality, living to be a hundred, "The Road
    Ahead", "To Renew America", "Future Shock", the
    frontiers of modern technology as seen by <A href="http://www.wired.com">Wired</A>
    magazine.  Scientists, novelty-seekers, early-adopters, programmers,
    technophiles.</FONT>
  </P></LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">
    <P align="left"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN><B>SL2:</B> </SPAN>
    Medical immortality, interplanetary exploration, major
    genetic engineering, and new ("alien") cultures.  The average
    SF fan.</FONT>
  </P></LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">
    <P align="left"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN><B>SL3:</B> </SPAN>
    Nanotechnology, human-equivalent AI, minor intelligence
    enhancement, uploading, total body revision, intergalactic exploration. <A href="http://www.idiom.com/~arkuat/extr/extropy.html">Extropians</A>
    and <A href="http://www.transhuman.com/mirrors/www.aleph.se/Trans/index.html">transhumanists</A>.</FONT>
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    <P align="left"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN><B>SL4:</B> </SPAN>
    The <A href="http://sysopmind.com/singularity.html">Singularity</A>,
    <A href="http://www.transhuman.com/mirrors/www.aleph.se/Trans/Words/j.html#JUPITER_BRAIN">Jupiter
    Brains</A>, Powers, complete mental revision, ultraintelligence,
    posthumanity, Alpha-Point computing, <A href="http://sysopmind.com/sing/principles.html#apotheosis">Apotheosis</A>,
    the total evaporation of "life as we know it." 
    Singularitarians and not much else.</FONT>
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