[extropy-chat] RE: Singularitarian verses singularity

[gts]

Sorry Samantha that was your question I was quoting in my last, not my own.

On a related subject, what do singularitarians think or propose concerning  
its psychological consequences?

Seems to me that run-away technology would lead to a state of intense  
ambiguity. This is distinct from, and more stressful than, a state of  
intense risk...

How Ambiguity Messes with Our Brains
http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/051209_brain_ambiguity.html

"Psychologists would say ambiguity is the discomfort from knowing there is  
something you don't know that you wish you did," said Colin Camerer, an  
economist at the California Institute of Technology and the primary  
researcher in the study."

I would say intense ambiguity is probably among the worst of all possible  
psychological states. Ambiguity activates the amygdala, associated with  
fear and anger. This is no surprise to me.

I'm a semi-believer in the possibility of a singularity -- I'd give it  
about a 60-70% probability sometime before the next century. What are true  
believers recommending as a means for preparing for the associated  
ambiguity? Even assuming the singularity is no threat to the environment,  
the prospect of millions of people living in a state of perpetual  
confusion is not good. Fear and anger would be rampant.

-gts