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8 Comments
gluoniumsays...upvote. Ray's tipped over into full on nutjob territory if you ask me.
bluecliffsays...bah, the singularity.
The OMEGA point is the problem!
Deanosays...Sorry what is The Singularity? Is it like The Matrix?
bluecliffsays...it's like a party, but without the wine, cigarettes and drugs. also no chicks.
Cronyxsays...The Singularity is an obsurvation of accelerating trends in information technology, and an understanding of their ramifications, which represent a rupture in the fabric of human history.
johnald128says...this video jumped out at me because one of my favourite books is by Douglas Hofstadter (didnt know who he was though), it's called
Godel, Escher, Bach : An Eternal Golden Braid. opened my eyes to certain things about the universe.
anyway, this talk starts off a bit boring but gets a little more interesting about halfway...
Cronyxsays...You should check out Ray Kurzweil's and Eric Dexler's keynotes as well if you liked this one, they were my favorites of the whole event.
djsunkidsays...This is great. I agree with his sentiment- the need for more debate with futurists and singularitatians. Funnily enough, I actually send Hofstadter an email in 2004 and he sent me a copy of the chapter that he had written for a book to be published by the oxford university press. It's great that he is still thinking and speaking about this topic, and basically saying what I expected him to say: "Calm down! You guys need to have more critical minds looking at this"
He asked me not to share his response, as the book was at that time yet to be published, but my question to him was thus:
Douglas Hofstadter is fantastic, and I'm thrilled to learn that he is working on a new book.
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