Comments on: The Heart of The Singularity Question http://www.consideringtheuniverse.com/blog/the-heart-of-the-singularity-question/ ...and your place in it. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:01:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: emily http://www.consideringtheuniverse.com/blog/the-heart-of-the-singularity-question/#comment-124 emily Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:32:28 +0000 http://www.consideringtheuniverse.com/blog/the-heart-of-the-singularity-question/#comment-124 Basically the whole point of the Singularity Institute, which hosted the Summit, is to figure out how to make a positive Singularity. They didn't talk about the consequences of a bad one very much, but they didn't really talk about the future after a perfectly wonderful Singularity either. The focus was on the how and when of getting to the Singularity, not so much about any post-Singularity issues. If the Singularity is an intelligence far greater than our own, I don't even know how we'd begin to speculate on what kind of world it would make. Basically the whole point of the Singularity Institute, which hosted the Summit, is to figure out how to make a positive Singularity. They didn’t talk about the consequences of a bad one very much, but they didn’t really talk about the future after a perfectly wonderful Singularity either. The focus was on the how and when of getting to the Singularity, not so much about any post-Singularity issues.

If the Singularity is an intelligence far greater than our own, I don’t even know how we’d begin to speculate on what kind of world it would make.

]]> By: laura http://www.consideringtheuniverse.com/blog/the-heart-of-the-singularity-question/#comment-123 laura Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:23:26 +0000 http://www.consideringtheuniverse.com/blog/the-heart-of-the-singularity-question/#comment-123 Grant- In fact quite a few speakers talked about your first point-Knowing the Singularity is coming doesn't help one get past it. However (Emily correct me if I'm wrong), no one talked about the second thought. Which is odd because it seems a logical next step of your first thought. Grant- In fact quite a few speakers talked about your first point-Knowing the Singularity is coming doesn’t help one get past it. However (Emily correct me if I’m wrong), no one talked about the second thought. Which is odd because it seems a logical next step of your first thought.

]]> By: laura http://www.consideringtheuniverse.com/blog/the-heart-of-the-singularity-question/#comment-122 laura Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:21:33 +0000 http://www.consideringtheuniverse.com/blog/the-heart-of-the-singularity-question/#comment-122 Siggi- I think you've hit on a key issue. It is perhaps inherently flawed to try to speculate on the issues the Singularity will create when we don't have information on the groundwork that leads up to its creation (the technology before, the society it arises from etc). Perhaps this is all just an intriguing thought experiment. P.S. Willkommen in unserem Blog Siggi- I think you’ve hit on a key issue. It is perhaps inherently flawed to try to speculate on the issues the Singularity will create when we don’t have information on the groundwork that leads up to its creation (the technology before, the society it arises from etc). Perhaps this is all just an intriguing thought experiment.

P.S. Willkommen in unserem Blog

]]> By: siggi http://www.consideringtheuniverse.com/blog/the-heart-of-the-singularity-question/#comment-120 siggi Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:31:57 +0000 http://www.consideringtheuniverse.com/blog/the-heart-of-the-singularity-question/#comment-120 To me there is hidden a bit of a deeper thought. "The" singularity will not fall unto "us" like Santa on a nice relaxed evening. It will be the result of technology years before. And this will all happen in a concrete society under concrete human beings with concrete and veeery different moral levels. (Sorry for my english, native german) To me there is hidden a bit of a deeper thought. “The” singularity will not fall unto “us” like Santa on a nice relaxed evening. It will be the result of technology years before. And this will all happen in a concrete society under concrete human beings with concrete and veeery different moral levels. (Sorry for my english, native german)

]]> By: Grant Hutchins http://www.consideringtheuniverse.com/blog/the-heart-of-the-singularity-question/#comment-119 Grant Hutchins Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:42:01 +0000 http://www.consideringtheuniverse.com/blog/the-heart-of-the-singularity-question/#comment-119 The other day when I was thinking about the Singularity, I realized that knowing the Singularity is coming is not equivalent to a free pass beyond it. Did anyone talk about the possibility that knowing the Singularity is coming doesn't help one get past it? Even crazier, what if expecting the Singularity causes you to forever be behind it? Just some food for thought. ;) The other day when I was thinking about the Singularity, I realized that knowing the Singularity is coming is not equivalent to a free pass beyond it.

Did anyone talk about the possibility that knowing the Singularity is coming doesn’t help one get past it? Even crazier, what if expecting the Singularity causes you to forever be behind it?

Just some food for thought. ;)

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