[extropy-chat] Bill Moyers' Comments - Global Environment CitizenAward

[Damien Broderick]

At 10:22 AM 1/10/2005 -0800, Adrian Tymes wrote:


>Further implication:
>"Singularity" and "Rapture" are the same thing, as
>viewed by different people with different takes on it
>("Rapture" is a religious take; "Singularity" tries to
>describe it in more scientific terms, but it's the
>same event).

Aargh!

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!

It is NOT the same event. A convergent technological singularity is just 
what is expected to happen when specific technologies attain a certain 
degree of complexity, power and speed. `Rapture' is a mythical state of 
spiritual transcendence rising from a Christian belief system that includes 
a world 6000 years old, the physical return of Jesus to judge the just and 
the damnable, and other literalist fundamentalist foolishness. DON'T GET 
THESE MEMETIC WIRES CROSSED, OR YOU'LL SHORT-CIRCUIT THE UNIVERSE!!

Damien Broderick