Re: ists and isms

From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Tue Feb 20 2001 - 13:57:05 MST


> Sandbergism: belief that the singularity will be a "swell" involving a
> large part of society rather than a "spike" involving just a few or
> one agent.

Molloyism: notion that machine intelligence helps to organize knowledge at
an accelerating rate, culminating in the harmonic consilience of science,
which enables a phase transition in biological evolution wherein extropic
borganization prevails. Meanwhile, we continue to think like gods and live
like insects.

τΏτ

Stay hungry,

--J. R.

Useless hypotheses: consciousness, phlogiston, philosophy, vitalism, mind,
free will



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