From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Mar 31 2002 - 23:22:58 MST
At 11:35 AM 4/1/02 +1000, Colin, *rubbing reddened cheek*, wrote:
>However, this issue has coloured my image of the Ray Kurweil machine -so
>easily able to take over what is, in effect, a kind of trademark and an
>icon of a movement. From the other list members, it seems, this is quite
>common. The fact that it was done a) in apparent full knowledge of it's
>original sources and history and b) without any recognition of the sources
>told me volumes - Ray Kurzweil must regard the sources as potentially
>negative or irrelevant in a publicity sense. Expendible. A pawn. I suppose
>that's what irritated me most.
It might have just been a slip of the pen, though. Certainly Ray's machine
has been generous in seeking (admittedly unpaid) contributions from others
who've trodden the Eschalator path ahead of him (Eliezer, me, Robin Hanson,
John Smart, others) and posting them on his Singularity site,
http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?m=1
so he's not exactly *hiding* his sources.
>(It'd be good to see TM-WTA or TM-Extropy on
>a Kurzweil singularity T-shirt!).
No, no, no! A TM-Vinge. Vernor's the Onlie Begetter.
Damien Broderick
[now seriously thinking of globally changing the term `Spike' into
`Singularity' in any translations of my damned book, if my agent finally
manages to stir any interest in Europe, Russia or Japan]
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