Comments on: Crime, Punishment, and the Singularity http://www.numenware.com/article/584 Religion. Brain. Dogen. Language. Japan. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:53:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Robert http://www.numenware.com/article/584#comment-3953 Robert Sun, 01 Jun 2008 13:49:22 +0000 http://www.numenware.com/?p=584#comment-3953 If may be interesting, to think about, "how it may be like" after we reach singularity, but most time, if not all time, it's just a wishful thinking. Singularity may change literaly everything we know. If we reach the Singularity, it will not be just "everything as we know" plus some nice silver "nano" gadgets. Kurzweil in his book has a story which conveys this a bit. Singularity is Near, p.297: two bacteria bilions years ago are talking together and one of the bacterias (a "futurist") imagines, how one time ten trilions of bacteria will group together and form a sort of "colonies", which will then call themselves a human beings. These colonies will communicate together and rebuild the world to their image. I see no way, how a bacteria could imagine, how the world with humans will look like. Similar to this, we can't guess, how it will be like after the "Singularity" point. If may be interesting, to think about, “how it may be like” after we reach singularity, but most time, if not all time, it’s just a wishful thinking. Singularity may change literaly everything we know. If we reach the Singularity, it will not be just “everything as we know” plus some nice silver “nano” gadgets.

Kurzweil in his book has a story which conveys this a bit. Singularity is Near, p.297: two bacteria bilions years ago are talking together and one of the bacterias (a “futurist”) imagines, how one time ten trilions of bacteria will group together and form a sort of “colonies”, which will then call themselves a human beings. These colonies will communicate together and rebuild the world to their image.

I see no way, how a bacteria could imagine, how the world with humans will look like. Similar to this, we can’t guess, how it will be like after the “Singularity” point.

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