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Yvain comments on Singularity Summit 2010 on Aug. 14-15 in San Francisco - Less Wrong
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Is Randi a singularitarian?
He seems to go back and forth from day to day. Over all though he's definitely skeptical that we can steer the Singularity and doesn't think it's coming soon, but he thinks the logic of it makes it likely in the long term.
Would be interested to know what he thinks about cryonics - it sometimes seems like it's become the official skeptical position that cryonics is bunk, but according to this strongly anti-cryonics thread Rudi Hoffman claimed to have spoken to him about it and found him "open to the idea"...
I doubt it. I've never heard him say anything that suggested he was. For that matter, I doubt that Irene Pepperberg is a Singularitan either. But lots of stuff that is of interest to the Singularitans is of interest to people who assign a low probability to a Singularity. Many of the people who go to the Summit don't consider the Singularity to be imminent.