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by rdharper314
Tue Apr 24, 2012 8:35 pm
Forum: Science, Technology and the Singularity
Topic: Climate Change
Replies: 112
Views: 172292

Re: Climate Change

John, your historical analogy is powerful and to the point! The story goes that when the Muslims were approaching the center of Constantinople in 1453 for the final conquest of the Byzantine Empire, the people of the Senate were having a lengthy political debate about whether angels were male or fem...
by rdharper314
Tue Apr 24, 2012 8:14 pm
Forum: Science, Technology and the Singularity
Topic: Information and Evidence of the Singularity
Replies: 30
Views: 26386

Re: Information and Evidence of the Singularity

Ray Kurzweil's exponential plot of the increase of intelligence from the beginning of life is a powerful argument that intelligence will continue to increase with or without us. The likely near term will see continued leveraging of our own intelligence with the help of machines of our own design. We...