From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Thu Jul 18 2002 - 19:42:56 MDT
There's a prediction kicking around somewhere that by 2010 there will be so
much code in the world that we can no longer possibly maintain it by hand,
the way that we do now. I wonder if that's some kind of negative
singularity?
Emlyn
> Michael Wiik wrote:
> > I think the singularity will have to deal with this shit,
> somehow. If
> > the singularity ignores the shit, it will hit a wall of
> built-up shit
> > and be stopped. If the singularity takes the time to cart
> away all the
> > shit, it will be slowed considerably. If the singularity is
> like Liquid
> > Plumber and dissolves the shit, we need to keep in mind that some of
> > this shit is people.
> >
>
> A lot of the shit comes from the inefficiences and inadequacies
> of human beings and human institutions imho. Hopefully upgraded
> humans and instutitions and especially a SAI would be clear a
> lot of this away or at least give us a higher grade of the same. ;)
>
> - samantha
>
>
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