From: Ben Goertzel (ben@goertzel.org)
Date: Wed Dec 31 2003 - 12:11:32 MST
Hi,
It's a useful data point; however, my impression is that Eliezer tends to
focus on online research rather than digging through old publications in
libraries etc. So I won't be surprised at all if some unheralded precursor
turns up...
ben
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sl4@sl4.org [mailto:owner-sl4@sl4.org]On Behalf Of Robin Lee
> Powell
> Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 2:04 PM
> To: sl4@sl4.org
> Subject: Re: An essay I just wrote on the Singularity.
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 01:02:23PM -0500, Ben Goertzel wrote:
> > I'm fairly certain he introduced that particular phrase, but is it
> > really true that no previous author wrote any kind of systematic
> > essay on the topic? I haven't done historical research on this,
>
> I have not either, but IIRC Eliezer himself claims to have been
> unable to find anything. That doesn't exactly prove anything, but
> it's a data point.
>
> -Robin
>
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