Facebook is a Doomsday Machine

[John Galt]

[exploited]

Hey Galt, welcome to the singularity. It isn't instantaneous and nobody serious ever thought it would be, but there is a different species waiting at the end of it.

[John Galt]

the singularity is defined by incomprehensibly fast technological progress by AI self improving itself. of course it's a point in time

[exploited]

A year after being spanked and proven definitively wrong about a topic he just barely understands, Galt persists.

Anyways, yes, FB bad. Whatcha gonna do about it?

[John Galt]

yeah whatever man, vernor vinge coined the term perhaps the person who made up the f**k concept doesn't know what he's talking about

[exploited]

The evolution of philosophical concepts is not real. -John Galt

Human rights only mean rights for landed white men, because that's what they meant in the beginning. -John Galt

I have no idea what I'm talking about. -John Galt

[exploited]

Oh, and by the way, the term wasn't coined by Vernor Virge. It was coined by John von Neumann.

Please try to educate yourself on these topics before commenting. Thank you.

[John Galt]

you can't just take a term and say it doesn't mean that any more and then demand other people accept your bizarre ideas

the technological singularity is a point in time in which technological progress, to human understanding, infinitely occurs in finite time. if AI can double it;s own capabilities in a year, then half a year, then a quarter of a year, and so on, this will eventually create a point in time which is referred to as "the singularity". it also requires AI to exist

you're talking about something else entirely and then wanting to call it "the singularity" because you're just being a bitch

[exploited]

Incorrect. As has already been explained to you several times, there are several variations on the idea. The variation I am referring to, and the argument we are having, is between hard and soft takeoff singularities. This has been discussed by folks like Ramez Namm and Johnathan Hall. In fact, this discussion is probably the single most disputed part of the entire theory, so to see you talk about it as if it is settled, because some guy who didn't even invent the term said so, is to be reminded why platforms like Facebook are so damaging: because it elevates the voices of people who have no idea what they are talking about.

[Spider]