Re: [silk] Three arguments against the singularity

2011-06-22 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:29 AM, Thaths wrote: > Ohh! My favorite kind of essay: one that takes a dig at Singularitarianism > and Libertarianism. Like he said. I can't prove anything either for or against, but I am somewhat sceptical about AI itself, let alone AI bootstrapping itself into trans

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2011-06-22 Thread Tea BeeDi
" When I had a spirit, When I was on fire When this valley was Made out of fresh air You spoke my name In naming Your Silence: O sweet, irrational worship! "

[silk] Three arguments against the singularity

2011-06-22 Thread Thaths
Ohh! My favorite kind of essay: one that takes a dig at Singularitarianism and Libertarianism. Thaths PS: Posting in HTML to preserve links http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/06/reality-check-1.html Three arguments against the singularityBy Charlie Stross

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2011-06-22 Thread Madhu Menon
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2011-06-22 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Drown it in a butt of malmsey. Or at least a glass or three of scotch Get drunk enough and we might actually enjoy being AM's guinea pigs in this null cascade -- srs (blackberry) -Original Message- From: Lahar Appaiah Sender: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net Date: W

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2011-06-22 Thread Lahar Appaiah
Will no one rid me of this meddlesome thread?

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2011-06-22 Thread Bharath Chari
On 06/22/2011 06:52 PM, Sean Doyle wrote: Surely the null hypothesis has to be better specified than that... My null hypothesis was that this collective could make a thread out of nothing. That has been amply demonstrated. But I'm vaguely disappointed that there hasn't been the usual thread d

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2011-06-22 Thread Sean Doyle
Surely the null hypothesis has to be better specified than that...

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2011-06-22 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > On 21-Jun-11 12:41 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan wrote: > >> I have got nothing to say, so I am going to say this. > > I am willing to bet that this, among the threads that Anand has started, > has the most replies. A case of empty ves

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2011-06-22 Thread ss
Well, in that case

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2011-06-22 Thread Amit Varma
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Jon Lebkowsky wrote: > Having read through this entire thread, I must say NSFW:

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2011-06-22 Thread Venkatesh Hariharan
Anand, your previous mail was an example of cinning linguistics. This one leaves me ... Venky On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Jon Lebkowsky wrote: > Having read through this entire thread, I must say > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian > wrote: >> >> @manikutty - yo

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2011-06-22 Thread Jon Lebkowsky
Having read through this entire thread, I must say On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > @manikutty - you've now completed whatever experiment you intended when you > asked me to approve this post [which didn't need approval anyway ..] > > Venkat Mangudi [22/06/11 08:11

[silk] At Guardian Activate London

2011-06-22 Thread Dinesh Venkateswaran
Anyone from silklist here today? Dinesh