[ExI] "traditional (Kurzweilian) progress"

[Damien Broderick]

At 02:44 PM 5/31/2007 -0700, Jeffrey Herrlich wrote:

>that we can still reach a
>positive Singularity by traditional (Kurzweilian)
>progress.

For the luvva dog! I like Ray and appreciate his PR efforts, but if 
we're going to fling about words like "traditional" the name to 
acknowledge is Vernor Vinge, who got the word out there 20 fucking 
years earlier. The phrase of choice, especially here where we the 
few, the proud, the lonely forerunners know what we're talking about 
is... "by traditional (Vingean) progress".

I know this is a narrow little meat-monkey matter, and that Vernor 
probably doesn't care less, but humans work to a surprising degree by 
mutual acknowledgement, especially in the intellectual realm. Give 
the man his due.

Damien Broderick