Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. rare, colloquial An individual who favors the coming of the technological singularity, and plans to accelerate the process of achieving this historical event when the time nears.
Examples
“ACO = Accelerating Change Optimist. you coined that term yourself a little while ago, to counter the phonetic complexity of "singularitarian".”
“Even sillier, in fact, than the word "singularitarian" is in the first place.”
“I'd like to propose that this attempt to come up with an alternative to "singularitarian" is silly.”
“I think there is probably some room for criticism of the singularitarian tendancy to equate increased computation with advances in all fields.”
“The absurdity of that is the implicit anti-singularitarian view that the world going forward is going to stay basically the same.”
“Actually "devout singularitarian" seems appropriate since it becomes a religious faith at extreme levels.”
“Only he's _poor, _ this whole polity is _poor, _and it can't ever be anything else, in fact, because it's a dumping ground for merely posthuman also-rans, the singularitarian equivalent of australopithicenes.”
“What I do think is that the average transhumanist/singularitarian assumes that there's comparatively easy answers to the long chain of ifs that would be required in order to create a working brain simulation in an imaginable timeline.”
“The singularitarian aspiration to superintelligence involves a prior reduction of intelligence to an abstract calculating instrumentality that actually functions first of all to radically impoverish our grasp of the substance of freedom as it is lived, whereupon it then pines for an amplification of that freedom-drained instrumentality into what it mistakes as superlative emancipation.”
“The book gets better as it goes, and in accordance with Stross’s singularitarian themes it’s free on the Internet.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘singularitarian’.
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Transhumanity
Cribbed from Transhumanist Terminology at aleph.se, which has definitions, and is itself based on the Lextropicon.
adhocracy, aeonomics, a-life, agoric system, ai, ai-complete, aleph, algernon, amortalist, arachniography, arch-anarchy, arcology and 333 more...
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this modern world
Markers of the zeitgeist, don't expect all of these to go the distance. The great majority are taken from Paul McFedries's excellent book "Wordspy"
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VanishedOne's Words
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Tweets
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sionnach According to Eliezer Yudkowsky:
"Singularity discussions seem to be splitting up into three major schools of thought: Accelerating Change, the Event Horizon, and the Intelligence Explosion."
Further detail here , but I'd recommend it only if you have nothing else going on in your life. Jan 21, 2009
bilby Are you preparing for the solitarity, Pro? Jun 13, 2008
Prolagus Orangutans are the only solitary haplorrines (i.e. the so-called "higher primates"). Jun 13, 2008
bilby "Across cultures, classes, and aeons, people have yearned to transcend death. Bear that history in mind as you consider the creed of the singularitarians. Many of them fervently believe that in the next several decades we’ll have computers into which you’ll be able to upload your consciousness—the mysterious thing that makes you you. Then, with your consciousness able to go from mechanical body to mechanical body, or virtual paradise to virtual paradise, you’ll never need to face death, illness, bad food, or poor cellphone reception.
Now you know why the singularity has also been called the rapture of the geeks."
- Glenn Zorpette, 'Waiting for the Rapture', June 2008. Jun 13, 2008
vanishedone See also the links in http://www.boingboing.net/2007/11/24/i-am-the-very-model.html for psychopharmacology and Usenet; but of course the primary educational aid is Tom Lehrer's setting of the chemical elements to the tune. 'There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium...' Nov 27, 2007
bilby I polished up my Plato so care-ful-ly
That now I am a Doctor of Phi-los-o-phy Nov 27, 2007
seanahan Wow, just wow. I think all philosophy should be taught with Gilbert and Sullivan. Nov 27, 2007
vanishedone I am the very model of a Singularitarian:
I'm combination Transhuman, Immortalist, Extropian... Nov 25, 2007