Vernor Vinge on the Singularity - part 1 of 2
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Uploaded by davidorban on Mar 31, 2008
Conversation with Vernor Vinge on the Technological Singularity. Vernor Vinge published the original article at a Nasa conference in 1993 that reintroduced and popularized the concept of Technological Singularity. In this conversation he talks about its perimeters, and the issue of what is called hard take-off.
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i for one will welcome our new artificial overlords
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"Riding the curve" of the Singularity. Yes. I think that is exactly what we are doing right now. We talk about the "coming of the Singularity" but I'd maintain we are in the midst of it. It's just kind of hard to see, because it hasn't hit the "hard" point and we are still able to deal with phenomenal changes that have never occurred, at the present rate, in human history. Look at the changes since 1810 and compare to any 200 year period. We have no template for comparison.
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@CalumnMcAulay Yeah that's the guy.
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@nilbud a douche bag who has 19 honorary doctorates 25 patents has created many life changing inventions and now spearheads what will soon come to be one of the biggest movements the human civilisation has ever seen!
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Vedic scholars are also big on this singularity event talk, however they not only speak of an artificial abomination, but also an event/moment in time when everything could be possible, as well as highly unpredictable and chaotic. However they don't seem that fearful of machine overlords since they figure Lord Indra and the rest of the demigods will deal with them swiftly if things get out of hand.
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@nilbud clearly an advance robot drone from the future, coming back in time to see my Vinge speak.
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@eyhexs let me state for the record, to our new machine overlords, that I am more than comfortable being one of their pets.
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@eyhexs lol like the simpsons ref
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Um, anyone see the 'UFO' in the very beginning?
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Chang trips have been around for months already.
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I agree. The four possibilities for the emergence of the Sungularity are plausible and well before their time. He wrote the essay about 16 years ago and even now people are wary of the scenarios he puts forth.
Him and Kurzweil are the two great minds in this field
MrGoodfella123 3 years ago 13
Too many people dismiss all of the scenarios, as if they were keen to put the whole thing out of their mind, rather than think about it at all. What is more disturbing is that sometimes they get even upset for others to do so, as if it damaged them...
davidorban 3 years ago