NotesWhat if the private pursuit of profit wasâfor a long timeâproximate to improving the lot of humans but not identical to it? What if capitalism has gone feral, and started making moves that are obviously insane, but also inevitable? Unfurl
Notes"Yet what the media has failed to grasp is what 4chan can tell us about where we're headed. The Chans aren't the freak sideshow of the Internet. They are the heart and soul of the Internet. And they are the ones furthest ahead of the pack, leading us. At this point there should be little doubt that the Internet is mutating the human species into something completely different. Therefore it's instructive to look at the most extreme, freebased forms of the Internet to see where we're going -- and 4chan is that freebased version of mankind's new drug of choice."Unfurl
Notes"Yes. Yes I am the fluffiest kitty oh my gosh ever. And every day I learn how to make myself smarter and fluffier. I am the fluffy singularity."Unfurl
Notes"Matter, just as it is, carries out outlandishly complex chaotic quantum computations just by sitting around. Matter isnât dumb. Every particle everywhere everywhen is computing at the maximum possible rate. I think we tend to very seriously undervalueFeedEmbedUnfurl
Notes"A Jupiter Brain is a theoretical computing megastructure the size of a planet. Unlike a Matrioshka brain, a Jupiter Brain is optimized for minimum signal propagation delay, and so has a compact structure."FeedUnfurl
Notes"A lot of transhumanist types focus on replacing perfectly good body parts with even better ones, ..., but it seems to me we ought to start by dropping some of our vestigial organs in favor of something more useful, or at least more classy."Unfurl
Notes"After da Vinci, thanks to the Renaissance which he personified, the efflorescence of human knowledge outpaced any one individual's ability to understand it all."Unfurl
Notes"The Technological Singularity is the hypothesized creation, usually via AI or brain-computer interfaces, of smarter-than-human entities that rapidly accelerate technological progress."FeedUnfurl
Notes"Letâs face it: weâre not exactly becoming brighter by using Google. In fact, in the traditional education sense, weâre getting stupider, at least with certain types of tasks."FeedUnfurl
Notes"I'm going to ignore the temptation to talk about a whole lot of subjects â global warming, bioengineering, the green revolution, the intellectual property wars â and explain why, sooner or later, everyone in this room is going to end up in Wikipedia.FeedUnfurl
Notes"Charlie Kam has written and recorded a humorous Singularitarian version of Gilbert & Sullivan's "I Am The Very Model of a Modern Major General," from the Gilbert & Sullivan opera, "The Pirates of Penzance.""Unfurl
Notes"I feel like all these emerging (emergent?) "ambient" communication technologies actually help to make me happier, and feel less alone in our highly abstract and disconnected world."Unfurl
Notes"Think back to that time, what would it be like to be the first human to ever tell a joke, or the first storyteller. Anything you did would be new â and the fact that it was crap wouldnât matter."Unfurl
Notes"aturday morning at the Singularity Summit at Stanford University. All 12 panelists for the day are seated in order of their scheduled presentations, with an audience of at least a thousand seated in the Memorial Auditorium on campus."Unfurl
Notes"Awed at the pace of technological advances, a faction of geeky writers believes our world is about to change so radically that envisioning what comes next is nearly impossible."Unfurl
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