[extropy-chat] Bill Moyers' Comments - Global Environment CitizenAward

[Keith Henson]

At 12:39 PM 10/01/05 -0600, you wrote:
>At 10:22 AM 1/10/2005 -0800, Adrian Tymes wrote:
>
>
>>Further implication:
>>"Singularity" and "Rapture" are the same thing, as
>>viewed by different people with different takes on it
>>("Rapture" is a religious take; "Singularity" tries to
>>describe it in more scientific terms, but it's the
>>same event).
>
>Aargh!
>
>NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!
>
>It is NOT the same event. A convergent technological singularity is just 
>what is expected to happen when specific technologies attain a certain 
>degree of complexity, power and speed. `Rapture' is a mythical state of 
>spiritual transcendence rising from a Christian belief system that 
>includes a world 6000 years old, the physical return of Jesus to judge the 
>just and the damnable, and other literalist fundamentalist foolishness. 
>DON'T GET THESE MEMETIC WIRES CROSSED, OR YOU'LL SHORT-CIRCUIT THE UNIVERSE!!

Yeah, but don't forget that the singularity would give the technogeeks the 
power to grant a simulated rapture to the rapture freaks.

Keith Henson