From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Aug 05 2003 - 22:15:13 MDT
Damien Broderick wrote:
>>>(Event) The Accelerating Change Conference will be a forum to explore the
>>>paradise of resources, as well as the risks and responsibilities,
>>>represented by cascading breakthroughs in computational technologies.
>
>>What a bizarre list of speakers--why are William Dembski and Michael
>>Denton on the program?
>
> What a fright! For a fine demolition of Dr. Dembski's ridiculous abuse of
> science in the service of crypto-creationism, see the short essay on my pal
> Chris Lawson's blog:
>
> http://members.ozemail.com.au/~claw/frankenarchive004.htm#20021031-02
>
> (A much longer and even better version is now available in his new
> collection WRITTEN IN BLOOD, but that's only available in Australia so far.)
Er, why is the term "Singularitarian" being used in connection with this
conference on the supposed deterministic acceleration of technological
change, a claim which is neither made by, nor relevant to, Singularitarians?
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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