[ExI] Eliezer S. Yudkowsky, Singularitarian Principles. Update?

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On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 1:22 AM, Damien Broderick  wrote:
> Extrope Dan Clemmensen posted here around 15 years ago his conviction that
> the Singularity would happen "before 1 May, 2006" (the net would "wake up").
> Bad luck.
>
>


Well, it has sort of woken up. Just not in the direction of AI.

It has gone more in the direction of telepathy for humans.
Instant, always available communication.
The Cloud, Wi-fi, Google, Facebook, Twitter, chat, texting, Skype,
email, Buzz, RSS feeds, etc.

So far, though, this ideal seems to be mainly a swamp of trivia and
gossip, a distraction from any real achievments. But that might
change.

'Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future'.
    Niels Bohr