Bill Joy was put up to writing that article by Ray Kurzweil for his own (Kurzweil's) self-promoting purposes.

BTW, that's what these AI guys are all about -- self-promoting. These comments themselves (including my own) are serving to promote these charlatans.

Let's do something useful rather than lending our time and energy to promoting this crap.

Evolution may be getting close. Close, that is, to a sufficiently dumb human. Watch this video: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/24/is-this-the-stupidest-per_n_244440.html