Re: [silk] Skepticism on Technological Singularity

[Anand Manikutty]

--- In silk-l...@yahoogroups.com, Eugen Leitl <eugen@...> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 03:25:11AM -0000, Anand Manikutty wrote:
> > Have you gone through the points I made on my List?
>
> I admit I looked for them, but unfortunately failed to find any.So you
are saying that this graph by Kurzweil is actually right? I assumed that
the silliness of the graph would be obvious. Please do describe in your
own words why Kurzweil's graph is actually correct.
Also, I had a rather through refutation of Yadkowsky's point on
communism. What is your rejoinder to this exactly?>
> > My claim is : there is just no reason to believe (based on the
evidence
> > presented by Yudkowsky, Vinge and Kurzweil) that a singularity could
> > happen. A singularity is still very hypothetical (more or less in
the
> > realm of science fiction).
>
> Why, so is everything. Until it isn't.
> I fail to see the point here. This is too vague to merit a response
from me.
Anand
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