On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:03:28AM -0000, Anand Manikutty wrote: > Yes, but the theoretical argument from the elasticity of substitution
The argument is empirical. I don't know what elasticity of substitution is. > obviously takes individual's preferences with respect to procreation, Sexual selection is an integral part of Darwinian evolution. > reproduction, behavior with respect to relatives, et cetera into Still fishing for relevance in your reply, see nothing so far. > account. You should have taken this into account before framing your > reply. It would help if you would start making sense. > > Please don't top-post and please trim your replies (message unchanged > > below). > You should reply to my theoretical response on the elasticity of > substitution since the idea of a mailing list, including this one, would > be to build upon discussion, and so if you would like to build upon the > discussion up to the present, you should respond to the theoretical > responses made up to this point. You should not presume to know what Taj > is saying there. Bzzt. > The specific point(s) made to other people are contingent upon their own > theory of Technological Singularity. This is because there is no There is no theory other than a positive feedback loop as the core driver, and a few plausible scenarios illustrating how positive feedback emerges and accelerates. > academically peer reviewed theory of Technological Singularity (a > canonical theory, so to speak) that one can point to. Or if you and Taj Say, are you a philosopher? You sure sound like one. > have agreed upon a canonical theory, you should let me know so that I am > on the same page. I would expect this canonical theory to have a central > set of hypotheses which have been verified empirically using the regular > standards for hypothesis testing. Anand Doesn't history of technology, particularly recent one strongly suggest positive feedback is happening, at least in multiple areas? -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
