Re: welcome to the singularity

From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Mar 09 2003 - 21:10:39 MST

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    At 06:41 PM 3/9/03 -0800, the spikester wrote:

    >In the current issue of Free Inquiry, Arthur C. Clarke
    >wrote a short article on the evils of religion. The
    >last sentence in that article is "Welcome to the
    >Singularity." Did he mean that in the same sense
    >that it would be understood by Eliezer et.al.?

    You bet.

    >Do you suppose he is reading extropians or SL4?

    No, but he did read my two pop sci books on the topic. As the quote on
    http://www.panterraweb.com/the_spike.htm shows, he liked my Singularity
    argument so well he wrote in his latest edition of PROFILES OF THE FUTURE
    (1999) that

    "Damien's book [THE SPIKE] will serve as a more imaginative sequel to the
    one you are reading now." (p. 148)

    He also called THE LAST MORTAL GENERATION "this truly mind-stretching book"
    (p. 189).

    So I think it's reasonable to suppose that he's extremely open to these
    prospects.

    Damien Broderick



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