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[trochee]

QC's last word on the Singularity Questionable Content's strip today has what ought to be the last word on the Nerd Rapture otherwise known as the Singularity.

PhD comics: Jorge Cham's description of science is awesome I've been meaning to post the excerpt here from this comic. PhD Comics is brilliant stuff.

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[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

I can't say I approve of the Manga increase in Hannelore's corneas. By a rough estimate, they will cover her entire face by 2011.

[caracola.livejournal.com]

Nerd rapture -- lol -- I'd never heard it called that before.

[trochee.livejournal.com]

Wish I could say it was original but it's not my phrase. I think I stole it from Warren Ellis, self-styled "Internet Jesus".

[caracola.livejournal.com]

Chris was like "oh a lot of people call it that" proving once again that he is nerdier than I.

[trochee.livejournal.com]

when the Day Comes, he may be taken and not you.

[mythalethe.livejournal.com]

Exponential nanobotz FTW!!!

singularity, bah, humbug!

[https://id.mayfirst.org/dkg (from livejournal.com)]

Here's what's always bugged me about common notions of the singularity:

The singularity is often phrased something like this: human-created intelligences/machines become more complex and self-modifying than any humans can understand; they are structurally immortal, vastly powerful, and humans are to scramble for the pickings in their post-human wake.

I don't understand why authors don't seem to grasp that the turning point in the US may have been shortly after lawyers figured out how to apply the 14th amendment to corporations. Since that point, the corporations themselves became immortal, human-created machines that are vastly more powerful than any human, and they're effectively leaving the vast majority of humans scrambling in their wake.

it would be more appealing if there were robots and space travel and, you know, actual justice to the humans involved, but i think the singularity is turning out to really suck.