timtyler comments on $295 bounty for new Singularity Institute logo design (crowd-sourced competition) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 01 February 2011 09:50:28PM *  0 points [-]

I share your interest in good terminology; but it looks to me like it's probably far too late to get rid of 'The Singularity'.

I expect marketers to play along - but probably not scientists - or at least not serious ones in the relevant fields.

There are already a few exceptions, though. For example, Robin Hanson is apparently trying to rechristen the agricultural and industrial revolutions as being "singularites". However, I think most historians will go the other way around. The "industrial singularity" will just sound like crazy talk to most people.