Re: Singularity to happen today at 5:45pm PST

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Apr 01 2004 - 20:23:10 MST


Damien Broderick wrote:
>
>> UPDATE: Due to overwheming demand, the Singularity
>> will be delayed by one hour, so that those wanting to
>> finishing watching the latest Buffy episode can do so.
>
> In this universe, those wanting to finishing watching the last Buffy ep
> should have finishing nearly a year ago.

Ya know, if the Singularity *did* happen on April 1st, people would still
be wondering if the whole thing was an enormously clever joke by *someone*
two weeks later.

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://intelligence.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence


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