tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post7945821025865672966..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: More Signs of the Singularity!Dale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-82576956798588708132011-01-22T12:31:08.514-08:002011-01-22T12:31:08.514-08:00I've got the stoned ape thing down already.I've got the stoned ape thing down already.Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-61863758802547939132011-01-22T12:15:32.839-08:002011-01-22T12:15:32.839-08:00You know, if this dash to the future ever runs out...You know, if this dash to the future ever runs out of interest for you, the archaic revival is really picking up some steam. <br /><br />Between Libertarian fitness regimes, Paleo-diet cults and the 2012/Terrence McKenna/Stoned Ape Theory crowd there's been a lot of boost to the Pleistocene-scene.Chad Lotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07532435215151055258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-90954783765401142982011-01-19T17:35:40.471-08:002011-01-19T17:35:40.471-08:00Don't you love it when futurologists who have ...Don't you love it when futurologists who have been handwaving about techno-transcendence just around the corner every hour on the hour for a generation turn around after endless failure and say, well, actually we've had cognitive enhancement for as long as we've had education, we've had virtual reality for as long as we've had literature, we've had nanotechnology for as long as we've had biochemistry, or, hell, ceramics, we've had the singularity for as long as we've had an uncertain future, we've been cyborgs since we've had eyeglasses, clothes, used language, whatever... and it doesn't occur to them that nobody ever needed a futurologist to point out that chemistry or literature exist or are worthy of discussion?Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-29708454588538860662011-01-19T09:04:07.470-08:002011-01-19T09:04:07.470-08:00> . . .of a kind that could not possibly be of ...> . . .of a kind that could not possibly be of the least use. . .<br />> to anybody surely who would ever subscribe to their technolowhizbang<br />> offering.<br /><br />Perhaps it's an example of the subject of an article in the<br />latest issue: "Artificial Intelligence is here. But it's nothing<br />like we expected." You just need to learn to adjust your<br />expectations, Dale, and let the Singularity flow over you<br />naturally.<br /><br />(No, I haven't read the article -- it just struck me passing<br />the window of one of the newsstands in the bus station.)jimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-5911137792884626602011-01-18T13:52:19.110-08:002011-01-18T13:52:19.110-08:00Ain't that the truth!Ain't that the truth!Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-565343117011854412011-01-18T13:46:39.607-08:002011-01-18T13:46:39.607-08:00Maybe Wired would get some subscribers (and releva...Maybe Wired would get some subscribers (and relevance) if they released the full Manning-Lamo chat logs.adminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01020701980607126113noreply@blogger.com