On 2013-05-27 15:25, spike wrote:<div class="gmail_quote"><div><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">> Look at us; how long have we been debating the singularity
right here? Twenty years now? We aren’t any closer than we
were then,</span><br></blockquote><div><br>On a geological timescale 20 years, or even 200,000 is considered instantaneous. And I don't know when the singularity will happen but I think its safe to say that we're 20 years closer to it now than we were 20 years ago. It is in the very nature of a singularity that there is little evidence for a dramatic increase in some quantity or quality until just before it happens, so whenever the singularity happens it will come as a great surprise even to those who know that a singularity can only come as a great surprise, otherwise it wouldn't be a singularity. <br>
<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">> other than computers are faster and better
connected.</span><br></blockquote><div><br>Other than that Mrs. Lincoln how did you like the play? <br><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> > It is possible that humans are just slightly too
dumb to discover how to cause a singularity.</span><br></blockquote><br></div>We probably are too stupid to cause a singularity, but our machines won't be.<br><br> John K Clark<br> </div><div><br></div></div>