[extropy-chat] mathimatical model for the singularity

[Robert Bradbury]

On 11/21/06, ps udoname <ps.udoname at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I was just thinking that I see a lot of people who say things like "the
> singularity WILL be exponential" and seem to think that the whole of human
> progress can be described as p=e^kt.
> This seems a little simplistic to say the least. I was going to say that I
> could come up with a better model, but I'm sure someone must have already
> done that somewhere....
>

Ray Kurzweil discusses it extensively in Chapter 2 of The Singularity is
Near titled "A Theory of Technological Evolution"  which goes on for 75
pages with lots of graphs (and a discussion of S-curves).
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