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Weekend Roundup 16-03-2007

A few things to keep you busy over the weekend…

Enjoy!

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  1. What if the singularity never gets defined?
    I find the most amusing feature of the Singularity Argument is how it boldly charges ahead without concern for any operative definition for just what it is that might constitute ‘intelligence’, artificial or otherwise. As with the SETI arguement that it should be possible to stand on a beach in Portugal and find a good seafood restaurant in New York by examining the surf, one might sum up the Singularity Prognosis with the following:

    If it takes 4 hours to drive from Toronto to Montreal, how long will it take to get to Diddy-Wah-Diddy?

    You may assume all the identical road-conditions you want.

    It is my prediction that, no matter how sophist-ocated and gigaterrabyte-petaflopped-heptahertz’d we may make our machines, they will always display some totally fundamental innane utter cluelessness that will endear them to us. How could we leave them behind when they are just so darned kitten-cute?

    Maybe Randy Newman is right. Maybe that’s why God loves us so.

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      I think Kurzweil is in this for Kurzweil, and that’s pretty much it.

      As for SETI efforts, that seems like a low percentage shot at finding aliens broadcasting stuff in an incredibly inefficient way. The broadcasting is inefficient, not the finding. Nobody in their right mind would do that for any amount of time (historically speaking). Even stupid cultures like ourselves are moving to much more efficient communications. These ways of communicating by radio waves are below the normal noise level, which makes a lot more sense.
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      Failure is not an option — it comes bundled with Windows

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