[extropy-chat] lette

Eliezer Yudkowsky sentience at pobox.com
Sat Oct 9 17:12:57 UTC 2004


Mike Lorrey wrote:
> --- Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:
> 
>>At 04:05 AM 10/9/2004 -0400, Eliezer wrote:
>>
>>>Snigularity:  The act of mocking smarter-than-human intelligence.
>>
>>Singurarity: The infrequency of smarter-than-human intelligence.
> 
> Cingularity(tm): Emergent phenomena occuring on cellular communications
> networks

Pingularity:  The exponential decrease in network response times as we 
approach the Eschaton.

Kingularity:  A Singularity involving a Bostromian singleton.

Ringularity:  See Ringularity.

Tingularity:  A transcendence that feels really, really good.

Lingularity:  A Tingularity produced by oral action.  See also Fingularity. 
  Some religious conservatives consider this a Sinularity if performed 
outside of Singumarity.

...okay, I'd better stop this now before it gets silly.

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence



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