The Singularity: Closer Than We Think?

[avant-garde]

... or is it far?

 

[Proton Soup]

this is the Matrix, Neo

 

[robertm]

Season 3 of the Mighty Boosh did a really awesome parody of avant-garde films.

 

[Cyrus]

... or is it far?

Somewhere in-between.

 

[Redbelly98]

This sounds more like Dr. Seuss.

Is the singularity near or far?
Is it in that nice red car?
Is the singularity in a house?
Or is it with a small brown mouse?
The singularity ate my ham!
I do not like it, Sam I Am.

 

[russ_watters]

You already passed it and will have to circle back around.

 

[donotremember]

http://www.singularitytracker.com/"

 

[arunma]

The singularity is right now!

$$f(t) = -\dfrac{1}{(t-t_0)^2}$$

 

[flatmaster]

http://www.singularitytracker.com/"

What a useless graph. Log(time) as a function of time

 

[Redbelly98]

What a useless graph.

I think it is entirely appropriate for this thread.

 

[avant-garde]

How do they know what a "paradigm shift" is?? Isn't it really arbitrary?

 

[Cyrus]

Not really, Kurzweil explains what he means by that pretty clearly if you watch any of his talks.