Thread by @realJeffreyP

I don't mean to scare you. Really don't. Sharing a concern, because I was on the other side, for a long time.

If you think what they're doing with the tech of Facebook and Twitter is bad, don't even try to imagine what they plan to do with Singularity, which is near. Not a joke.

There are few technologists more active in the field of artificial intelligence than Ray Kurzweil (now at Google), who I have worked with, and Marvin Minsky who was at MIT (I know, Epstein..) who I worked with when I was a kid.

Here's a Kurzweil article.
edge.org/conversation/r…

I'm not endorsing or criticizing the concepts of singularity. I'm just telling you, it's at the inflection point right now. It's converging right now. It's sneaking up on you and many are not even thinking about it or, they think about it and make fun of it like UFO's or bigfoot.

It's a mistake not to be paying attention as the technology creeps closer to becoming reality. It's likely going to present a whole slew of ethical, legal and intellectual issues, and conservatives need to be ready for those debates.

Saying we're not interested would be a shame.