Re: "Enlightenment" singularity

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Sat Dec 16 2000 - 14:39:13 MST


Dan Fabulich <daniel.fabulich@yale.edu> writes:

> I'm no fatalist, but there aren't that many reasonable possibilities,
> even from this side of the Singularity.

I think this is just because we do not have enough information and
imagination. A lot of developments are obvious possibilities in
retrospect but look very unlikely or weird before they happen.

Personally I think civilisations do not converge in the long run,
despite living under the same ultimate laws of physics - cultural
differences may make them branch in completely different directions.

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