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Comment author: buybuydandavis 31 January 2013 12:05:41PM 4 points [-]

it's better to have a name that doesn't give a new person all kinds of weird initial associations as their first impression.

Yeah, though I buy into much of what Kurzweil has to say, Singularity has always rubbed me the wrong way - too much of Omega Immanentizing the Eschaton for me.

Is there any other snappy term out there for the idea that we're headed for very big changes through exponential performance improvement in lots of technologies?

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 01 February 2013 03:29:49AM 2 points [-]

Yeah, though I buy into much of what Kurzweil has to say, Singularity has always rubbed me the wrong way - too much of Omega Immanentizing the Eschaton for me.

Changing the name doesn't change the fact that they're trying to Immanentize the Eschaton.

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