yli comments on Suggest alternate names for the "Singularity Institute" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: yli 19 June 2012 12:30:16PM *  11 points [-]

The AI researcher saw the word 'Singularity' and, apparently without reading our concise summary, sent back a critique of Ray Kurzweil's "accelerating change" technology curves. (Even though SI researchers tend to be Moore's Law agnostics, and our concise summary says nothing about accelerating change.)

Worse, when you try to tell someone who already mainly associates the idea of the singularity with accelerating change curves about the distinctions between different types of singularity, they can, somewhat justifiably from their perspective, dismiss it as just a bunch of internal doctrinal squabbling among those loony people who obsess over technology curves, squabbling that it's really beneath them to investigate too deeply.