tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post3034511502842726281..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: More Signs of the Singularity!Dale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-57831648721712482372012-03-02T08:18:39.752-08:002012-03-02T08:18:39.752-08:00> I was thinking the other day that surely the ...> I was thinking the other day that surely the Singularity<br />> hype was fading.<br /><br />No doubt for some people who get caught up in it, it's<br />just a phase, and the hype eventually fades **for them**.<br /><br />But no, this sort of thing is a congenital weakness for<br />some folks, and it's not likely to go away, any more than<br />Scientology or Mormonism are likely to go away. Especially<br />in the good ol' US of A.<br /><br />http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Malignant%20Optimism<br />http://www.amazon.com/Never-Say-Die-Myth-Marketing/dp/0307377946<br />http://www.amazon.com/Bright-sided-Relentless-Promotion-Positive-Undermined/dp/0805087494jimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-19089290862443518642012-03-02T05:34:43.906-08:002012-03-02T05:34:43.906-08:00I was thinking the other day that surely the Singu...I was thinking the other day that surely the Singularity hype was fading. A mate sent me a link to a TED talk on the end of growth. So here I thought perhaps elite opinion is shifting. But no that talk was immediately followed by that X prize Singularity University guy who immediately set to belittle the previous speaker's Talk and ran off a bunch of buzzwords "3D printing! Synthetic Biology!" He came off as an obnoxious prick and he got a standing ovation.jollyspaniardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10999141103840765243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-34975727207968929902012-03-01T11:23:02.350-08:002012-03-01T11:23:02.350-08:00No doubt the authorities would be alerted instead ...No doubt the authorities would be alerted instead to dire threats being made against gonads.Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-17485155196693157802012-03-01T11:09:16.332-08:002012-03-01T11:09:16.332-08:00Yet another reason to prefer the spelling "Go...Yet another reason to prefer the spelling "Gonna."Irenistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-19693802816978544842012-02-29T18:27:35.928-08:002012-02-29T18:27:35.928-08:00> [A] north Georgia high school went on lockdow...> [A] north Georgia high school went on lockdown. . .<br /><br />Well, considering the events of earlier this week, I suppose<br />they can be excused the panic.<br /><br />I'll be interested to find out, in the end, whether<br />T. J. Lane was a bullied loner, as all the initial media<br />reports seemed to suggest, or whether he was in fact<br />a narcissistic psychopath like Eric Harris of Columbine.<br />The alleged quote from Facebook, "I want the world to<br />bow at my feet!" certainly, at least out of context,<br />suggests the latter. (Of course, out of context,<br />so would Dale's occasional facetious suggestion,<br />"Bow, minions!").jimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.com