On the other hand (to add a little levity to the conversation), a very avid 2012-ite I knew last year informed me that
"You should just mix eight ounces of Robitussin with eight ounces of vodka and drink it fast -- you'll find your own private Singularity, right there!!" ;-pp On 10/10/06, Lúcio de Souza Coelho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 10/10/06, BillK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (...) > If next year a quad-core pc becomes a self-improving AI in a basement > in Atlanta, then disappears a hour later into another dimension, then > so far as the rest of the world is concerned, the Singularity never > happened. (...) Yep, I also tend to think of the Singularity as some convergence of new technologies (or even natural events, like the evolution of a new human species) that completely changes the way the worlds works. Yet I have to concede that is a rather vague and subjective definition. Also, in this definition there will not be *the* Singularity, there will be a lot of them; arguably there were Singularities in the past - one could think of the Industrial Revolution or the Age of Discovery as past Singularities, for instance, no matter how antique and low tech they look from our "enlightened" point of view. ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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