Who's Who of Singularity Research.

[swestrup]

As I've probably made abundantly clear in the past, I'm a transhumanist, and therefor believe that some sort of technological singularity is pretty much inevitable this century.  Not everyone agrees with this point of view, naturally, but I've yet to see any more cogent arguments against it possibility than 'Ick! I wouldn't like that!'. This doesn't exactly constitute the telling disproof that many would like to believe it is.

Anyway, here's an interesting 2-page who's who PDF about authors on Singularity topics, both for, and against.

Comments

[electorprince.livejournal.com]

Inevitable? It's practically guaranteed!!

[hendrikboom.livejournal.com]

You said "some sort of". That's OK. An actual singularity I just don't believe. Even black holes probably won't turn out to be singularities once quantum mechanics is factored in.

[swestrup]

Well, I don't believe that math will stop working, or that actual infinite progress will occur. I do believe that a profound change will occur that is impossible to predict ahead of time.

Heck, even the folks who talk about the Singularity have discovered that there are three distinct things that they mean by it, and they disagree on which will happen.

At the moment though, I can't find my reference to the three views, and how they differ. If you're interested, I can try to dig it up later.