Ari Gesher
Techno-utopian vision; bully for the economy, still not clear on jobs and wealth distribution. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2014/01/02/how-the-united-states-is-reinventing-itself-yet-again/ … cc /@jstogdill
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@alephbass@jstogdill not read the blog yet but I can tell you in the future everything will be free, which means nobody will need to work. -
@2045singularity@alephbass So awesome. I hope we have Wall-E's too! -
@jstogdill@2045singularity so that’s what it feels like to have religious fanatics show up; remarkably similar to other missionaries. -
@alephbass@2045singularity Just for the record, is "singularity utopia" for real or a parody? Serious question. -
@jstogdill@2045singularity now is the time to invoke Poe’s Law. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PoesLaw … -
@alephbass@jstogdill never had Poe's Law invoked in my 4yrs of blogging. 1st time for everything. Seems like a#Catch22#CosmicTeapot law. -
@2045singularity@jstogdill singularity and the tech it entails is a discontinuity and very difficult to plan past or argue with; -
@alephbass@jstogdill if you subscribe to unfathomable Singularity model, which I don't. Note Hanson, Sandberg etc http://hanson.gmu.edu/vc.html -
@alephbass@jstogdill but regardless of the Singularity you can see via the evidence where technology is heading. -
@2045singularity@jstogdill sure. Our line points to that general region of the graph. Much is uncertain about the path. You seem quite sure -
@alephbass@jstogdill we could be hit by a dinosaur killer asteroid tomorrow, but if civilization continues the future I predict is certain. -
@2045singularity@jstogdill predictions are never certain. Period. Full Stop. -
@alephbass@jstogdill nothing is utterly certain, nothing, but we can be reasonably certain. Active attempts to create, increases certainty. -
@2045singularity@jstogdill so if all goes according to plan, the plan will come true. Big if there. -
@alephbass@jstogdill is future I envisage really so hard to imagine? We communicate globally instantly in an manner largely unknown 1990. -
@alephbass@jstogdill sometimes we're so deeply immensely we forget how much world changed. There are amazing signs of progress everywhere. -
@2045singularity@jstogdill this is not a failure of education or imagination. It’s a disagreement on the certainty of a specific future. -
@alephbass@jstogdill if no total-collapse civilization, utopia is inevitable based on evidence. But when? I'm confident in my ability.
Singularity Utopia
Jim Stogdill
@alephbass @jstogdill it's merely matter of highlighting progress-evidence, then convincing people they can change the world via technology.
12:27 PM - 9 Feb 2014