To be precise this is SCIENCE v RELIGION 15 years ago you had a philosopher/pseudo scientist: Eric Drexler (today Boatrom) leading Nanotech hype. He influenced then tech elite Bill Joy (today Elon) who imagined "grey goo" taking over Meanwhile the scientists got to work.https://twitter.com/wolfejosh/status/985610189670936576 …
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Michio Kaku is a "scientist" but most of his ideas are fanciful fictions. Thought experiments are absolutely critical to conjuring hypotheses but "scientists" qualify and temper hypotheses and are not sensationalist alarmist or aggrandizing without evidence
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I've been a full-time research scientist almost my whole career. Productive scientists are all over the map in comfort with speculation. I. J. Good was an excellent scientist who was also comfortable with speculation, thus superintelligence (Bostrom is riffing off Good).
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