From: John Clark (jonkc@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Thu Oct 22 1998 - 11:03:48 MDT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
Joe E. Dees <jdees0@students.uwf.edu> Wrote:
>here is a vast difference between logically possible and empirically
>plausible.
That's certainly true today, but it's not a law of nature. Perhaps a
good definition of The Singularity is a era when that distance
shrinks exponentially with time.
>The simultaneous mastery of miniaturization and
>complexity involved in creating a single nanobrain capable of both
>explicit self-awareness and continuous self-modification in response
>to environmental input while maintaining such a self-referential
>conscious identity would of necessity dwarf the totality of human
>technical achievement from stone age to present.
Yes, it would dwarf anything human beings have done up to now by
many orders of magnitude, nevertheless I think that's exactly what
will happen. And I think it will happen in less than a century,
perhaps much less.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.5.5
iQA/AwUBNi9ldN+WG5eri0QzEQLFIwCgkojk3UHPevWffrgjxBT4Hu+YZoEAoN9l
b9RTpukmTCvgbHxnME2lQcqk
=47fK
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Nov 01 2002 - 14:49:40 MST