NancyLebovitz comments on Open Thread, August 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: kmeme 04 August 2010 01:48:14AM -2 points [-]

I'm starting to believe term The Singularity can be replaced with The Future without any loss. Here is something from The Singularity Institute with the substitution made:

But the real heart of the The Future is the idea of better intelligence or smarter minds. Humans are not just bigger chimps; we are better chimps. This is the hardest part of the The Future to discuss – it's easy to look at a neuron and a transistor and say that one is slow and one is fast, but the mind is harder to understand. Sometimes discussion of the The Future tends to focus on faster brains or bigger brains because brains are relatively easy to argue about compared to minds; easier to visualize and easier to describe.

from http://singinst.org/overview/whatisthesingularity

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 04 August 2010 06:57:29AM 1 point [-]

I think that if The Future were commonly used, it would rapidly acquire all the weird connotations of The Singularity, or worse.