xamdam comments on Open Thread June 2010, Part 3 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: xamdam 14 June 2010 03:33:00PM 2 points [-]

In addition to theoretical objections, I think the majoritarian argument is factually wrong. Remember, 'future is here, just not evenly distributed'.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=singularity shows a trend

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/business/13sing.html?pagewanted=all - this week in NYT. Major MSFT and GOOG involvement.

http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/2010/04/transhumanism-has-already-won/

Comment author: timtyler 15 June 2010 08:58:18PM 2 points [-]

Re: "http://www.google.com/trends?q=singularity shows a trend"

Not much of one - and also, this is a common math term - while:

"Your terms - "technological singularity" - do not have enough search volume to show graphs."