<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Tue, Aug 21, 2018  Giulio Prisco </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:giulio@gmail.com" target="_blank">giulio@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.843137);font-family:medium-content-serif-font,Georgia,Cambria,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;font-size:21px;letter-spacing:-0.063px;line-height:33.18px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">></div> </span>I don’t think the Singularity is near.</blockquote><font size="4"><br>I think the date of the Singularity is unknown, if it were predictable it wouldn't be a Singularity. If it happens a thousand years from now in 999 years it will still seem to be a long way off. Whenever it comes it will be a big surprise.<br></font><div><br></div><div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>if you are alive now, your mind will not be uploaded.</blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font size="4"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font></font></div><font size="4">Have you taken liquid nitrogen into account? If it works (a big if I admit) it won't matter if it takes a million years, subjectively the wait will seem instantaneous.  <br><br>John K Clark  </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></div></div><br></div></div>