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26 Aug 2008, 2:27 am

I considered posting this in the science thread though I believe the topic will be more fruitful in respect to philosophy and religion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity

What are your thoughts in relation to the technological singularity?

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26 Aug 2008, 2:49 am

It's an extremely long article. I only skimmed through it but the phrase that stuck out to me was it's the Rapture, for nerds. I can understand it that way.

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26 Aug 2008, 3:55 am

Although Vinge is concerned with an intellectual singularity wherein machines outpace humans in intelligence and capability to absorb and utilize information, there is also a financial singularity approaching where machines will be able to replace humans more cheaply and efficiently in any form of production. The whole money system will collapse.

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26 Aug 2008, 5:01 pm

I am waiting for it.

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26 Aug 2008, 5:07 pm

Psimulus wrote:

I considered posting this in the science thread though I believe the topic will be more fruitful in respect to philosophy and religion.

all the science posts i make there tend to die. if i put it here, it gets more of a response. go figure.

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26 Aug 2008, 6:20 pm

Yup, remember to start hording incendiary/armour piercing ammo, and tasers.

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26 Aug 2008, 6:28 pm

And have Aperture Science create another GLaDOS?

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26 Aug 2008, 6:36 pm

Open the pod bay doors, HAL...

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26 Aug 2008, 7:21 pm

good news: humankind will only know one more arms race

bad news: not sure how it's going to end

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27 Aug 2008, 9:53 am

Postperson wrote:

The phrase that stuck out to me was it's the Rapture, for nerds. I can understand it that way.

Me too. I get quite rapturous about it!

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27 Aug 2008, 11:49 am

The important distinction is that it will actually happen. The Rapture will not.

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27 Aug 2008, 12:00 pm

chever wrote:

The important distinction is that it will actually happen. The Rapture will not.

Maybe that's what the Rapture is...

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27 Aug 2008, 12:10 pm

DejaQ wrote:

chever wrote:

The important distinction is that it will actually happen. The Rapture will not.

Maybe that's what the Rapture is...

A titanic artificial intellect would probably choose something cooler than a slain lamb to open the seventh seal.

A slain lamb? Seriously

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27 Aug 2008, 12:19 pm

chever wrote:

good news: humankind will only know one more arms race

bad news: not sure how it's going to end

even more bad news: most people are confident in an afterlife.

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27 Aug 2008, 12:25 pm

skafather84 wrote:

chever wrote:

good news: humankind will only know one more arms race

bad news: not sure how it's going to end

even more bad news: most people are confident in an afterlife.

It would not surprise me in the least if the mind continues to exist after the body is destroyed

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27 Aug 2008, 12:31 pm

chever wrote:

skafather84 wrote:

chever wrote:

good news: humankind will only know one more arms race

bad news: not sure how it's going to end

even more bad news: most people are confident in an afterlife.

It would not surprise me in the least if the mind continues to exist after the body is destroyed

what leads you to believe that?

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