On 3/17/06, <a href="mailto:starman2100@cableone.net">starman2100@cableone.net</a><div><span class="gmail_quote"><b class="gmail_sendername"></b> <<a href="mailto:starman2100@cableone.net">starman2100@cableone.net</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Is everyone here still a true believer when it comes to the Singularity? I recall the past threads we have had here
<br>regarding "hard" and "soft" take-off Singularities. And I can remember when people said it would happen around 2025<br>but the date seems to keep on getting pushed back. lol</blockquote><div><br>
Yes; soft takeoff variety; I don't know when, but I'd guess late 21st century is more likely than early.<br>
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Someone in a gaming group I was in back in the 90s told me that when an aircraft is taking off, there are two critical points:<br>
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"V0" - when the plane is going too fast to stop before it hits the end of the runway.<br>
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"V1" - when the plane is going fast enough to get into the air.<br>
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Somewhat awkwardly, V0 comes before V1.<br>
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My character in that game used this as a metaphor: the world is past
V0. We either reach V1 or we crash and burn. I don't know what the
probability of success is, but it doesn't matter; what matters is what
we can do to improve it.<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Will the "Techno-Rapture" still save us or must we look to cryonics? I realize being driven over by a bus or getting
<br>terminal cancer could make the Singularity a moot point anyway for an individual, and give great impetus to being<br>signed up for cryonics.<br>
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*shrug* Nobody can foretell the future that accurately. It might come
when you're alive, it might not. If it does, being signed up for
cryonics won't do any harm. If not, it just might save your life. If
continued life is a high priority for you, this would suggest signing
up for cryonics as the best course of action.<br>