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I like your highway analogy. Mainly I think the singularity argument suffers from an acute case of perception bias in favour of recent advancements; just as pic
by shaggyfrog 14y ago
I like your highway analogy. Mainly I think the singularity argument suffers from an acute case of perception bias in favour of recent advancements; just as picking any arbitrary point in time and asking a scientist of that era what they thought the most important scientific advancements were.
> We can't imagine the tools that will be in use in 2112.
Pretty much just the hall-filling computers of the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx. Guitar-smashing jerks.
- panacea 14y agoI think it's an example of ruthless extrapolation. http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-06-27/ruthless-extrapolation http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-06-27/ruthless-ex...
- snowwrestler 14y agoHa! It was so hard to resist a Rush reference when I wrote that date.