Re: Singularity introductions (was Re: [sl4] New Singularity FAQ)

From: Thomas McCabe (pphysics141@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Feb 20 2010 - 20:43:39 MST


No problem. This issue is why I linked to the Singularity Institute's
overview page: http://intelligence.org/overview/whatisthesingularity. It's
not perfect, but it's better than nothing.

On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 07:58:38PM -0500, Thomas McCabe wrote:
>> This Singularity FAQ was co-authored by myself and Kaj Sotala. It
>> is not intended to be an introduction to the Singularity;
>
> Going to derail this, sorry.
>
> What *would* you give to someone who has never heard of the
> Singularity, but you think might be receptive?  I have yet to find
> anything that seems satisfying to me.
>
> Ideally in book form.
>
> -Robin
>
> --
> They say:  "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons."
> And I'm  thinking:  "Does it even occur to you to try for something
> other  than  the default  outcome?"  See http://shrunklink.com/cdiz
> http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/
>

-- 
 - Tom McCabe
http://www.rationalfuturist.com/
Department of Mathematics
Yale University
http://www.math.yale.edu/


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