<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 3:21 PM, hkhenson <<a href="mailto:hkhenson@rogers.com">hkhenson@rogers.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div>Sorry Natasha, this "distinction" isn't one at all. It makes no<br>
difference if the events making up what is called the singularity<br>
take place over hours, days or years. The end result is still the<br>
same, humans as they are known today are no longer significant in<br>
shaping the world.<br></blockquote></div><br>I have to agree with Natasha and disagree with you on this... does it make no difference if it takes two years or ten years to graduate college? Get promoted at a job? Get to the end of the line at the DMV? Launch a superintelligence?<br>
<br>Also, some people seem to be under the mistaken impression that the Singularity is necessarily a worldwide event that touches everyone. As initially defined, it meant smarter-than-human intelligence. So you could have a smarter-than-human intelligence in Antarctica that just sits around and has no impact on the world whatsoever. Until the initial, Vingean, most useful definition of the Singularity, that would constitute one, but under the new, messy, overbroad, Kurzweilian definition, it wouldn't.<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Michael Anissimov<br>Lifeboat Foundation<br>