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- noun 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.
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ACO = Accelerating Change Optimist. you coined that term yourself a little while ago, to counter the phonetic complexity of "singularitarian".
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ACO = Accelerating Change Optimist. you coined that term yourself a little while ago, to counter the phonetic complexity of "singularitarian".
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I'd like to propose that this attempt to come up with an alternative to "singularitarian" is silly.
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Even sillier, in fact, than the word "singularitarian" is in the first place.
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I think there is probably some room for criticism of the singularitarian tendancy to equate increased computation with advances in all fields.
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The absurdity of that is the implicit anti-singularitarian view that the world going forward is going to stay basically the same.
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Actually "devout singularitarian" seems appropriate since it becomes a religious faith at extreme levels.
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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.
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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.
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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.
amor mundi 2009
vanishedone commented on the word singularitarian
I am the very model of a Singularitarian:
I'm combination Transhuman, Immortalist, Extropian...
November 25, 2007
seanahan commented on the word singularitarian
Wow, just wow. I think all philosophy should be taught with Gilbert and Sullivan.
November 27, 2007
bilby commented on the word singularitarian
I polished up my Plato so care-ful-ly
That now I am a Doctor of Phi-los-o-phy
November 27, 2007
vanishedone commented on the word singularitarian
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...'
November 27, 2007
bilby commented on the word singularitarian
"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.
June 13, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word singularitarian
Orangutans are the only solitary haplorrines (i.e. the so-called "higher primates").
June 13, 2008
bilby commented on the word singularitarian
Are you preparing for the solitarity, Pro?
June 13, 2008
sionnach commented on the word singularitarian
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.
January 21, 2009