Douglas R. Hofstadter - Singularity Summit at Stanford - P3

Douglas R. Hofstadter - Singularity Summit at Stanford

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Science & Technology

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• Douglas Hofstadter
• Daniel Dennett
• Godel Escher Bach
• cognitive studies
• consciousness transhumanism
• artificial intelligence
• the singularity
• Singularity summit at Stanford
• philosophy

[danogzilla]

hofstadter spends 30 minutes shitting all over the guy three feet to his left. i love it.

[CPLains]

@CPLains I love manifestos! Hmm.. I think it would have to be in movie-format though. Which reminds me, I have to check out "Transcendent Man" :D

[CPLains]

@EstateSoundMatt Wrap it up with a few notes and unleash the manifesto :D

[EstateSoundMatt]

It's so interesting that I accidentally chose this video and this one by Jaron Lanier where he explains his book, You Are Not a Gadget. Maybe we can put them together with a subtitle:

I am a strange loop, not a Gadget: Calm Down, Ray!

[BigMTBrain]

@CPLains - OUCH!!! :D

[CPLains]

@BigMTBrain Lets both be on the lookout for that moment in peoples faces when thrill turns into horror, that priceless moment before the pin drops and the laughter dies out ;)

[BigMTBrain]

@CPLains - LOL, regarding the South Korean's ever-present distraction. I understand and agree with you regarding the qualitative side of things. I wonder if the "thrill" response that we have regarding nearly all new technology will be of similar distraction. I imagine it will.

[CPLains]

@CPLains And of course i mean higher intelligence in a qualitative sense (whatever that means). And probably Japan has become more technophobic because they are reaching some psychological limit to how fast they can incorporate new technology. Maybe! It depends a lot on how people think. I've watched quite a few South Korean movies, and they seem pretty comfortable with all of this. Having a mad northern neighbor with nukes next to you might ease worry of such trivial things :p

[CPLains]

@BigMTBrain It's too bad that while we have a good grasp of the quantitative development, the qualitative development seems impenetrable. For instance higher intelligence. And the qualitative reactions and movements that can suddenly spike up among all this. As people tirelessly point out - religion is still gaining ground rapidly.And for instance, even the people with toilets that wash your behind while playing music and so on -Japan - seems to have developed a highly techophobic (wiki) public.

[BigMTBrain]

@CPLains - Sorry, one more thing... the social networking phenomenon, where people are so very willing to share all of their personal details and activities in text and video, is just another step along the progression of melting our skulls since the time when humans advanced beyond ape-like grunts. Privacy may become an issue at some point, but the trend clearly shows otherwise. Wireless cranial implants will supplant cellphones in 15 to 30 years. Humans will have become telepathic.