Re: Singularity Objections: Singularity, exponential growth

From: Damien Broderick (thespike@satx.rr.com)
Date: Wed Jan 30 2008 - 21:54:55 MST


> * The Singularity is the Rapture of religious texts, just dressed
>in different clothes to appeal to proclaimed atheists.
> o Rebuttal synopsis: Unlike any of the various Raptures, the
>Singularity is a technological event, caused by ordinary humans
>following the ordinary laws of physics. It does not involve any
>religious or diving powers.

The kind involving diving powers would be nitrogen narcosis, the
Rapture of the Deep.



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