Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
>
> Actually, I'm quantitative and probabilistic. So I express ETS (estimated
> time to Singularity) as a curve peaking at 2008-2010 and falling off to
> below 5% at 2005 and 2020, assuming world events go on more or less as
> usual (no nuclear war, no Baylor Jihad). That's in a world with a
> Singularity Institute, though.
>
I'm unfamiliar with the Baylor Jihad. Is it anything like the
Butlerian Jihad of Frank Herbert's "Dune"?
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Sat May 11 2002 - 17:44:13 MDT