[sph]

I never found the idea of a thinking computer exciting, just as I don’t find the idea of a thinking screwdriver exciting.

These days I see the ultimate goal to create a super-intelligence to be blasphemous, if not existentially dangerous and I am afraid by how nonchalant everybody is about it.

I quite enjoy a reality where humans and biological life are in control of their destiny, but it’s apparently become a taboo opinion around these parts.

[esperent]

Good for you. But other people are allowed to find things exciting that you don't.

Personally I'd find the idea of thinking screwdriver... Well, weird. But definitely amazing and exciting.

[jasomill]

I find the idea of a thinking screwdriver annoying. Thinking things are difficult to reason about, and tools that are difficult to reason about are frustrating to use.

[tpoacher]

A thinking screwdriver:

"You know what ... screw this."