Comments on: Mainstreaming of the Singularity Continues https://blog.speculist.com/singularity/mainstreaming-o.html Live to see it. Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Sally Morem https://blog.speculist.com/singularity/mainstreaming-o.html#comment-4637 Sally Morem Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:37:56 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=1920#comment-4637 How will we know when we are experiencing the Singularity?

When tech progress is doubling in hours, then minutes, then seconds…

]]> By: Sally Morem https://blog.speculist.com/singularity/mainstreaming-o.html#comment-4636 Sally Morem Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:36:09 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=1920#comment-4636 “By way of comparison, I think Ray Kurzweil says that we will experience 20,000 years of progress during the twentieth century.”

Typo alert: Kurzweil was referring to the 21st century. The 20th century already happened.

He referenced the 20th century by saying we experienced more tech progress that century than in all of human history.

So, yeah, things are accelerating.

]]> By: Anonymous https://blog.speculist.com/singularity/mainstreaming-o.html#comment-4635 Anonymous Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:27:10 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=1920#comment-4635 Rattner is the CTO, not the CEO.

]]> By: Pouncer https://blog.speculist.com/singularity/mainstreaming-o.html#comment-4634 Pouncer Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:29:57 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=1920#comment-4634 Not that it’s stolen, but isn’t the dishwashing example straight out of “Door Into Summer” by Robert Heinlein?

As I recall a later RAH book about dimensional hopping had a protagonist that could always find work, whether the Earth he found himself in was advanced high-tech or stuck with tech of a century behind our own, because he was a good manual dishwasher…

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