It's funny to think that the singularity, if it is coming, will produce this profound qualitative shift in human existence. And at the same time mean absolutely nothing in the face of a problem such as this.
I have the feeling that if anything like the 'singularity' happens, it will feel fairly normal to the participants. There are many things today that would seem completely 'sci-fi' to people even a few decades ago. But we're still going to be resource and physics constrained, unless society changes our conscious enough that memes and genes won't still end up in an endless hunt for exponential growth.
No singularity. You must have read to much sci-fi written by AI researchers afraid of dying and overly influenced by judeochristian conceptions of God.
If you want a qualitative shift in human existence you must create it. The singularity isn't going to save us any more then beneficent aliens will solve my problems by taking me on their ship to the planet of the sex goddesses to live in bliss in their zoo.
You are said Eliezer Yudkowsky? Nice. I read and like that overcoming bias stuff. If anyone could prove me wrong about the singularity, it's gonna be young people working on their own like you. We need lots more people working on there own chasing there own ideas. I like your style.
I bet you find lots of useful stuff trying for it. It still seems to me to be more a religious then scientific endeavor, but I'm glad you are working to prove loudmouths like me wrong.
