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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

BurritoB0T: Another Sign That "The Singularity" Has Always Really Been About the Black Hole of Wealth Concentration

BurritoB0T makes burritos for a glorious future in which even fewer people have jobs to pay for burritos made by machines that don't eat burritos. I notice that the Singulemmingtarians on twitter are all atwitter about this bit of genial silliness, possibly because all it takes is seeing the word itself in the title of an article to make them come.

1 comment:

jimf said...

> "The Singularity" Has Always Really Been About the
> Black Hole of Wealth Concentration

That's because wealthy people are leading the way.

http://amormundi.blogspot.com/2011/08/rich-are-different-from-you-and-me.html
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Competent Elites
Eliezer Yudkowsky
27 September 2008
http://lesswrong.com/lw/ub/competent_elites/

http://thelifeofmanquamanonearth.blogspot.com/2011/07/kind-of-diversity-progressive-despise.html