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Title: Singularity: Whoa, never really heard about this before.
Post by: nicname on February 12, 2011, 02:50:41 AM
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2048138-1,00.html

People living forever, etc.
Title: Re: Singularity: Whoa, never really heard about this before.
Post by: ew2x4 on February 12, 2011, 03:29:11 AM
It's a common idea, but people have actually started thinking about it actually happening. If you think about it, lots of movies and books revolve around the idea of computers and machines out gaining humans in intelligence. The Matrix, Terminator, I, Robot, etc. We've always considered it to be a hostile takeover and not an extension of ourselves. Either way, when it takes place, it will have an incredibly significant change on civilization.
Title: Re: Singularity: Whoa, never really heard about this before.
Post by: nicname on February 12, 2011, 03:32:34 AM
not the idea, the seriousness of it's supposed immanence
Title: Re: Singularity: Whoa, never really heard about this before.
Post by: steve dave on February 12, 2011, 07:13:48 AM
Yeah, I feel bad for people 35 and over that aren't going to live forever like me and my bros
Title: Re: Singularity: Whoa, never really heard about this before.
Post by: chum1 on February 12, 2011, 07:17:21 AM
2045 is immiment?  stuff like that seems pointless.  i'm still waiting for my flying car.
Title: Re: Singularity: Whoa, never really heard about this before.
Post by: Dirty Sanchez on February 12, 2011, 07:34:26 AM
2045 is immiment?  stuff like that seems pointless.  i'm still waiting for my flying car.

this
Title: Re: Singularity: Whoa, never really heard about this before.
Post by: steve dave on February 12, 2011, 07:39:26 AM
Two 35 and overs outed already  :dubious:
Title: Re: Singularity: Whoa, never really heard about this before.
Post by: steve dave on February 12, 2011, 07:40:10 AM
You two may as well head for carousel right now
Title: Re: Singularity: Whoa, never really heard about this before.
Post by: Pete on February 12, 2011, 09:36:15 AM
We had a thread like this once, and I totally volunteered to live in the Matrix as a rock star or whatev.  Chum basically called me a liar.  It got pretty heated... :dubious:
Title: Re: Singularity: Whoa, never really heard about this before.
Post by: chum1 on February 12, 2011, 10:16:35 AM
to each their own, broze.  i wish you well at your singularity meeting aka closeted star trek convention. 
Title: Re: Singularity: Whoa, never really heard about this before.
Post by: ew2x4 on February 12, 2011, 10:29:09 AM
to each their own, broze.  i wish you well at your singularity meeting aka closeted star trek convention. 

Have fun dying when we (cyborgs) take over the world.
Title: Re: Singularity: Whoa, never really heard about this before.
Post by: chum1 on February 12, 2011, 10:33:41 AM
to each their own, broze.  i wish you well at your singularity meeting aka closeted star trek convention. 

Have fun dying when we (cyborgs) take over the world.

na-nu na-nu
Title: Re: Singularity: Whoa, never really heard about this before.
Post by: bubbles4ksu on February 12, 2011, 10:59:40 AM
I used to like to think about this, but now I have the depressing notion that humanity will never get off this rock due to fighting and stuff. Sad that people hate science.
Title: Re: Singularity: Whoa, never really heard about this before.
Post by: john "teach me how to" dougie on February 12, 2011, 01:32:05 PM
Great. Become immortal and then starve to death due to overpopulation.

Wait...... soylent green?  :lick:
Title: Re: Singularity: Whoa, never really heard about this before.
Post by: Dirty Sanchez on February 12, 2011, 03:17:09 PM
Two 35 and overs outed already  :dubious:

Only 33 (for another couple weeks anyway).
Title: Re: Singularity: Whoa, never really heard about this before.
Post by: DQ12 on February 13, 2011, 03:31:17 AM
Love thinking about this.  I could talk about it for hours.

Think of how far computers have come in such a short time span.  The internet in the early 90s was so crude and archaic, now tons of people have it on their person all the time.  With google on your phone, there is practically no answerable question that can't be reached virtually anywhere.  That is nuts.  I fully expect there to be some kind of internet capable contact HUD lens in the next 10-15 years, and it will be awesome, and totally change the way humans communicate with one another.

Pacemakers and artificial limbs, and the implications of artificial body parts, blow my mind too. 
Title: Re: Singularity: Whoa, never really heard about this before.
Post by: ChiComCat on February 13, 2011, 08:27:07 AM
All I know is, I could kick my toaster's ass 20 years ago and I can kick it's ass today.  Not a whole lot of progress if you ask me
Title: Re: Singularity: Whoa, never really heard about this before.
Post by: Poster formerly known as jthutch on February 16, 2011, 10:41:02 AM
Guys I can destroy anything electronic within minutes, with out even trying.  I guess I have a knack for it.  Like I had a Blu-ray player and broke it with in a month, didn't even break a sweat.  This computers/machines thing taking over the world is crap.  Too many viruses and to many electronic morons like myself who would spill gatorade and Dr pepper in your hard drive (not at the same time, gross).

Oh and in case I'm way off base on what you are talking about.

DID NOT READ
Title: Re: Singularity: Whoa, never really heard about this before.
Post by: The1BigWillie on February 16, 2011, 11:01:01 AM
Guys I can destroy anything electronic within minutes, with out even trying.  I guess I have a knack for it.  Like I had a Blu-ray player and broke it with in a month, didn't even break a sweat.  This computers/machines thing taking over the world is crap.  Too many viruses and to many electronic morons like myself who would spill gatorade and Dr pepper in your hard drive (not at the same time, gross).

Oh and in case I'm way off base on what you are talking about.

DID NOT READ

Yeah, couldn't we just spray them with a hose? 
Title: Re: Singularity: Whoa, never really heard about this before.
Post by: KITNfury on February 16, 2011, 01:35:10 PM
 Life without my weiner? No thanks. Give me pills that keep my rna strands long.
Title: Re: Singularity: Whoa, never really heard about this before.
Post by: DQ12 on February 20, 2013, 01:39:52 PM
Just another (incredibly awesome) step towards humans and machines/technology becoming one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1uyQZNg2vE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1uyQZNg2vE)
Title: Re: Singularity: Whoa, never really heard about this before.
Post by: bubbles4ksu on February 20, 2013, 02:17:30 PM
Just another (incredibly awesome) step towards humans and machines/technology becoming one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1uyQZNg2vE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1uyQZNg2vE)

this made my day!
Title: Re: Singularity: Whoa, never really heard about this before.
Post by: FuzzyWuzzy on February 20, 2013, 03:17:28 PM
you can pay a bunch of money and go to this thing Kurzweil started to learn more about the proposed singularity:  http://singularityu.org/
Title: Re: Singularity: Whoa, never really heard about this before.
Post by: michigancat on February 20, 2013, 04:10:48 PM
Just another (incredibly awesome) step towards humans and machines/technology becoming one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1uyQZNg2vE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1uyQZNg2vE)


San Francisco things: Hating google employees wearing google glasses in the Mission.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/01/what-happens-when-you-walk-into-a-bar-wearing-google-glasses/272745/

such assholes.