Re: [FYI]: WER Singularity Issue

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Jun 26 2003 - 11:14:06 MDT

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    Michael Wiik wrote:
    > It appears that Whole Earth Review doesn't have the funds to publish
    > their Spring 2003 issue which is about the technological singularity.
    > Some of the articles are available as pdf's on their site
    > http://www.wholeearth.com/

    Looks worthless except for those interested in keeping up with popular
    error. Jaron Lanier is the only one who seems to have a clue that perhaps
    there is some technical knowledge involved in understanding these things,
    not that he does anything interesting with yon clue. Alex Steffen is the
    only one who seems to understand what a "Singularity" is or have done any
    reading on the subject. Neither says anything new. Bruce Sterling gets
    bonus antipoints for having slipped away into a complete fantasy worldview. 

    -- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence

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