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The Singularity? Why popcul is decades behind.....
#358827 - 09/20/16 03:59 AM
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"The Singularity is Vernor Vinge’s term, though Kurzweil gives little room to this fact, referring to Vinge as a San Diego mathematician. Vernor introduced it in the 1980s, though I can recall talking to him about such possibilities when we met in graduate school at UC San Diego in the mid-1960s."
http://www.gregorybenford.com/uncategorized/the-future-is-almost-here-for-we-the-haves/
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Re: The Singularity? Why popcul is decades behind.....
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#358828 - 09/20/16 04:54 AM
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Re: The Singularity? Why popcul is decades behind.....
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#358858 - 09/21/16 06:14 AM
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> "The Singularity is Vernor Vinge’s term, though Kurzweil gives little room to this
> fact,
Yeah, I've been "struggling" through Kurzweil's book on and off for about 9 months now .... it's been a real struggle because he makes so many extremely optimistic predictions and also because he repeats himself over and over and over again. A summarised version could probably have had ALL of the content and ALL of the detail in less than 10 pages.
Even though I find his extremely optimistic timescales and predictions very difficult to accept, seismic shifts definitely seem to be coming.
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Check out THE MEDUSA CHRONICLES....
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#358881 - 09/21/16 09:02 PM
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Stephen Baxter's and Alastair Reynolds' recent play-around in one of Clarke's old story-worlds.
In this circumstance, it was simply human xenophobia, and the inability or something of the Machines to directly appeal to that. Just be homies.....but no.....
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Re: The Singularity? Why popcul is decades behind.....
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#358882 - 09/21/16 09:07 PM
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> Yeah, I've been "struggling" through Kurzweil's book on and off for about 9 months now .... it's been a real struggle because he makes so many extremely optimistic predictions and also because he repeats himself over and over and over again. A summarised version could probably have had ALL of the content and ALL of the detail in less than 10 pages.
> Even though I find his extremely optimistic timescales and predictions very difficult to accept, seismic shifts definitely seem to be coming.
Kurzweil is a footnote in the abstracted context, that I included to further illustrate why the idea of the Singularity is so old.
I think much more than what Kurzweil says will happen can happen. The realm of physical possibility is only over-shadowed by what human nature will allow. So I think at least half of Kurzweil's claims will emerge in the suggested time....many of the other things won't be relevant or will get superceded by other things.
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