> ==We should consider these facts when evaluating the singularity. Will it be > a spinning out of control, or will social factors continue to improve? > This singularity -- is it blue? > I'm sorry, but 'the singularity' in non-ironic usage simultaneously puzzles > me and makes me laugh. It's got such magic-think aspects to it, and yet it's > all so bloody numeric. And folks like Vinge approach it with such a sense of > inevitability that they think 'ways it couldnot-happen' is a clever > time-waster of a parlor game. > Sterling and others have pointed out repeatedly that: it's in the nature of > singularities that you don't know what they'll result in; that most of the > singularitarians are then going ahead and predicting anyway -- which is fine, > that's what futurists and SF folk do, but I smell a strong, deeply sexual > tang of technolust about it all that makes you wonder about their > objectivity; and that we have, in fact, been here before. (See my point > above.)
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