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.
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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]
