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> For beings that can understand information, surely computation is the highest possible goal. That sounds almost like a statement of religion. I am a being th

• jrq 8y ago
  Maybe not as an individual, but as a society or as a species, there are few absolutes for us to pursue. History and Math are the only absolutes we really have. What I'm meaning to say is its a righteous goal compared to pursuing art or literature, because it's universal in nature. I think Turing will be remembered as one of the few people who changed the course of human thought in its entirety. I understand what you're saying, and sure, my goal right now this weekend is to get some plane tickets and an airbnb booked, there's no computing mysticism there. But as a whole, I think we humans have an objective to find four the most information possible and to do the most computing as possible. That's essentially what the singularity is about, a human creation coming to a point of autonomy. That's the next step for humans, I think, abandoning flesh and spreading autonomous machines throughout the cosmos. I guess it IS my religion.