Daniel Ust has generously offered,
> Actually, he used mainly physical problems and speculations about such to
> guide the math and, from what I've read, he was a poor mathematician.
I'll go along with that. Thanks for the pointer.
> Darwin was actually what we would call a naturalist. He was deeply
> influenced by the geologist Lyell, whose notion of gradualism -- viz., the
> same processes at work now were working in the past to create all the
> geological formations we see today -- had an impact of Darwin's theory of
> evolution.
Yes, I should have written naturalist instead of evolutionist.
> I do think of the airplane as an invention and most people at the time of
> the brothers Wright would probably have agreed.
So they were inventors rather than bicyclists. Good.
> I won't argue with this, though I don't want to diss Marx completely. His
> view of dialectics is quite interesting, though he did not, sadly, apply it
> to his own philosophy. But if he had logged on to Priceline.com or heard
> William Shatner singing about it, who knows what he might have applied the
> money he would have saved to.
He probably would have done with it whatever his mother told him to do with it.
I've heard he was an incorrigible momma's boy.
Anyway, my "modest proposal to shorten the name Singularitarian" would be to
call themselves Singulariters.
--J. R.
"We participate, therefore we are."
--John Seely Brown, _The Social Life of Information_
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