Re: Singularity to happen today at 5:45pm PST

From: Tommy McCabe (rocketjet314@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Apr 01 2004 - 20:32:57 MST


--- "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com>
wrote:
> Damien Broderick wrote:
> >
> >> UPDATE: Due to overwheming demand, the
> Singularity
> >> will be delayed by one hour, so that those
> wanting to
> >> finishing watching the latest Buffy episode can
> do so.
> >
> > In this universe, those wanting to finishing
> watching the last Buffy ep
> > should have finishing nearly a year ago.
>
> Ya know, if the Singularity *did* happen on April
> 1st, people would still
> be wondering if the whole thing was an enormously
> clever joke by *someone*
> two weeks later.

Anyone with the capability to pull off that kind of
prank for two weeks would be capable of causing a real
Singularity in about three minutes. It should be
easier to make ultratechnology than to fake making
ultratechnology, especially for that long.

> --
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
> http://intelligence.org/
> Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for
> Artificial Intelligence

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