timtyler comments on Subjective Relativity, Time Dilation and Divergence - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 11 February 2011 09:27:53PM *  2 points [-]

Nick Bostrom seems to have introduced the Singleton concept to the Singularity/Futurist discourse here.

I don't think so. It dates back at least to early 2001 on SL4. It didn't come from Nick Bostrom.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 11 February 2011 09:59:29PM 3 points [-]

I remember getting the word from Bostrom.

Comment author: timtyler 11 February 2011 10:07:08PM *  3 points [-]

O. I stand corrected. Thanks!

Comment author: MichaelHoward 12 February 2011 04:01:34PM 2 points [-]

I can't remember if the word "singleton" was used, but the concepts were being discussed on the extropian mailing list as early as about 1993, and I don't think it was new then.

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