looks interesting!!!!!!!!!!

We humans are very bad at estimating the progress of exponential processes, especially when they are synergistic in nature. We are also very bad at estimating the astronomically increased power of a coordinated synchronized metaprocess, by looking at its pieces in a somewhat uncoordinated and chaotic state.


Take the laser. The same light that casts a gentle glow when the photons are free to scatter haphazardly about your room from a light, can burn a whole through thick steel when they move in lock step together in a focused coherent beam.
Now if the lowly photon can do all that, what can several billion of the most powerful minds this planet's evolution has ever produced do, when we begin to think as one? How many times is the same thought thought? How many times has the same problem been solved? If you are a programmer, how many times has the same loop been written, or if-then logic block designed?


It is the ever increasing exponential reduction in the duplication of effort that has fueled the ever increasing exponential acceleration of technology. But at the most basic level of innate human thought, duplication is still rampant. Also, a single human mind has a quantifiable limit on the number of ideas it can hold active simultaneously in it's attention, and a limit on the complexity and the size of the largest pattern it can maintain internally for use in problem solving via visualization.


Once machines interconnect us at the logical and visual level so we can share in real time both patterns and logic, and once other machines vastly increase the size and number of patterns we can manipulate in our minds by augmenting our minds with external memory and processing resources, the rate and the kinds of problems we can solve will accelerate beyond anything we can imagine. Problems currently considered intractable will be considered trivial in retrospect.


My two cents.  Here's a blog post I wrote about Web 3.0 as a prequel to The Singularity.


-- roschler

Robodance 5 - Rovio over Skype with Voice Control

• No more router setup hassles
• 2 way audio on any system

Hey, I was going to say that!

Robodance 5 - Rovio over Skype with Voice Control

• No more router setup hassles
• 2 way audio on any system

Definitely going to watch this, trying to figure out when it will be playing in NYC. Anybody know?

This film looks interesting. Hopefully he intends on using his abilities for good.


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