Re: [silk] silklist Digest, Vol 15, Issue 17

2011-02-16 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2011-02-15 17:26:54 +0530, j...@pobox.com wrote: On 15-Feb-2011, at 2:54 PM, Pranesh Prakash wrote: This talk of shenanigans and bandwidth conservation reminded me of Postel's Prescription: “Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send”.[1] I don't see the

Re: [silk] Skepticism on Technological Singularity

2011-02-16 Thread Heather Madrone
On 2/14/11 8:14 AM February 14, 2011, Anand Manikutty wrote: I see. So you don't know what elasticity of substitution is. Well then, we have a bigger problem than you not following this particular argument. The issue : there is a structure to the arguments here that you are not following,

Re: [silk] Skepticism on Technological Singularity

2011-02-16 Thread Thaths
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Heather Madrone heat...@madrone.com wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticity_of_substitution It's a pretty basic concept, actually, straight out of Economics 2. How easy/useful is it to substitute one input for another in production? It would take about

Re: [silk] Skepticism on Technological Singularity

2011-02-16 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:28:23AM -0800, Heather Madrone wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticity_of_substitution It's a pretty basic concept, actually, straight out of Economics 2. How Sorry, I don't do pseudosciences. Thanks for the links, still see no relevance to a simple

Re: [silk] Skepticism on Technological Singularity

2011-02-16 Thread Charles Haynes
Top posting and not trimming due to primitive smart phone interface. If rate of cognition goes up doesn't ability to predict do so as well? Is there a combinatorial effect that makes predictability intractable? -- Charles On Feb 16, 2011 12:09 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: On Wed, Feb

Re: [silk] Skepticism on Technological Singularity

2011-02-16 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:31:23AM +1300, Charles Haynes wrote: Top posting and not trimming due to primitive smart phone interface. If rate of cognition goes up doesn't ability to predict do so as well? Is Good point. But we're at a fixed point at the moment, given that there is no easy way