If I am unable to persuade you with any of the arguments as to why singularity is not the likely outcome of the future, I will switch sides and argue that a concept of a symbiotic community that shares each others thoughts through indwelling of the very breath of life is not at all a [...]
Entries from October 2009
Argument #6 against singuarity
October 29th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: 8. Eternal Mission · Innovation
Argument #5 against singuarity
October 28th, 2009 · No Comments
Nanotechnology, like any other technology requires a lot less precision to kill people then to make them whole, thus some of the first applications will be military, spying and mind-control, thus at least initially there can be lots of negative effects of a technology that is way more powerful than anything we’ve mishandled in the [...]
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Argument #4 against singuarity
October 26th, 2009 · No Comments
Complete integration aids the spread of the detrimental effects of viral activity and thus making a more homogeneous population more susceptible to eradication.
In the world where there is no catastrophic events, singularity may be possible, plausable and even profitable. But, not so with the world where terribly bad things can happen. Sub-optimization keeps the problems [...]
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What better way to spend Friday night then configuring Windows 7 ?
October 24th, 2009 · No Comments
I admit, it was not intentional, but the day Windows 7 came out, a friend of mine, who was just as clueless as I to that fact asked me to help him pick out his new PC. So, last night, after buying the bottom of the barrel PC, that is still more powerful than anything [...]
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Argument #3 against singuarity
October 21st, 2009 · No Comments
Should my first two arguments fail to challenge the concept of Singularity as the blessed hope of humanity, I propose a third argument: The beauty of a current system of intelligence is precisely in its suboptimization, since that is what makes it flexible and adoptable.
The very impreciseness and imperfection of our world makes it our [...]
Tags: Innovation