The Singularity is Near
Mar. 5th, 2006 12:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swestrupI'm now something like 4/5th of the way through "The Singularity is Near" and I'm now getting to the dubious parts. So far, I haven't seen anything startlingly new. I was a bit surprised that we now had a good model of how the brain performs auditory processing in humans, but that was about it. Most of the other new technology he mentions, I was already well aware of.
We're now at the point in the book where he's trying to predict what our civilzation will do once its several trillion times smarter than it is now. Two words: No Hope. I think he realizes it too, since he does keep throwing in disclaimers about our current limited understanding of any number of things. So, this is the point where I'm starting to disagree with him on a number of points. But they're mostly things where we just don't have enough information and he thinks one thing is more likely, and I think another is.
At the rate I'm going, I should finish the book in another week.
We're now at the point in the book where he's trying to predict what our civilzation will do once its several trillion times smarter than it is now. Two words: No Hope. I think he realizes it too, since he does keep throwing in disclaimers about our current limited understanding of any number of things. So, this is the point where I'm starting to disagree with him on a number of points. But they're mostly things where we just don't have enough information and he thinks one thing is more likely, and I think another is.
At the rate I'm going, I should finish the book in another week.
