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wildcatfollowshare
5-24-2008 7:29 AM
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wildcat says:
Persons who believe firmly in the inevitability of The Singularity might be surprised to learn that the default human society is the closed society, resistant to change. Most of them have never known anything but open societies, born of western civilization’s restless urge to expand intellectual horizons. They live in an exceptional time, in an exceptional society, yet somehow believe it to be the human default. That type of blindness comes from forgetting to study history.
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5-24-2008 2:57 PM
abailart
Excellent.
5-25-2008 10:44 AM
carrerinyes
How tiny we must be.
5-25-2008 10:47 AM
skwirlinator
5-25-2008 10:48 AM
skwirlinator
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.

Shortly after, the human era will be ended.

Vernor Vinge, 1993

Kurzweil has a new site heralding his latest book:

http://www.singularity.com

Due out September 22, 2005

672 pages of updated Singularity reading!
The Intelligent Universe (Ray Kurzweil, 2002)

Within 25 years, we'll reverse-engineer the brain and go on to develop super-intelligence. Extrapolating the exponential growth of computational capacity (a factor of at least 1000 per decade), we'll expand inward to the fine forces, such as strings and quarks, and outward. Assuming we could overcome t...
5-25-2008 10:49 AM
skwirlinator
The logarithmic explosion of technology, driven by Molecular Nanotechnology and advanced AI, will surely enable the Singularity in much less than 100 years. (Current estimates cluster around 2030!) We need more time... but time and progress waits for no one.

No human can guess, let alone predict what the 'other side' of the Singularity will be like. With molecular and atomic control of matter, and hyper-fast molecular computer systems enhancing our intelligence, 'Humans' will transcend our biology. Once we arbitrarily and dynamically define ourselves, both physically and intellectually, we step through the Singularity! I want to take that step.. will you join me?

My tiny con...
5-25-2008 12:04 PM
Silkweaver
Editing out of perception certain aspects of reality which do not align to one's world view, is not a rare phenomenon. One's world view and belief system is a very powerful filter on perception. Yet, in promoting radical visions such as the singularity, overlooking the overwhelming and obvious obstacles might be helpful, perhaps even necessary.
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