From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Thu Jan 06 2000 - 20:50:38 MST
> At 09:22 AM 1/6/00 -0600, you wrote:
> >>...Quite right. Join the Singularitarians. It should be, oh, at least
> >another five years, maybe forever, before we lose *our* edge.
>
> [Max More wrote] ...many Extropians are and long have been
> singularitarians. If you lable yourself a "Singularitarian", then believing
> in a Singularity (however that is defined) must be a core belief.
> Extropians *may* expect a Singularity, but need not....
Ive flipflopped on this a bunch of times. The concept is exciting and
terrifying at the same time, not unlike nanotechnology. But at least it
results in some great words, such as when one speaks against the
singularity,
but is a phony because she really believes in it, then she speaks
pseudoantisingularitarianistically. {8^D spike
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