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 ...
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- Tue Apr 24, 2012 8:35 pm
- Forum: Science, Technology and the Singularity
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- Forum: Science, Technology and the Singularity
- Topic: Information and Evidence of the Singularity
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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 ...
The likely near term will see continued leveraging of our own intelligence with the help of machines of our own design ...