59 replies to this topic

[justinb]

You know the TS is imminent when you can play ping pong with the sun and watch it from earth go back and forth. [tung]

[jaydfox]

You know the technological singularity is imminent when you'd rather read the Bible than read the newspaper, because the Bible has fewer mentions of seemingly impossible miracles and curses.

[quadclops]

You know the Technological Singularity is imminent when . . . Stephen Hawking goes to the hospital for an operation, and walks out the front door afterwards! [:o] [thumb]

[Richard Leis]

You know the Technological Singularity is imminent when Vernor Vinge's essays and Hugo Award-winning novels about the Technological Singularity read like quaint bedtime stories from some long dead classical author, except that this particular author is still very much alive.

[Richard Leis]

You know the Technological Singularity is imminent when your toaster and your laptop start dating and you feel insanely jealous.

[justinb]

You know the TS is imminent when people no longer believe in God.

[MichaelAnissimov]

You know the Singularity is imminent when Eliezer stops working on weekends.
You know the Singularity is imminent when people quit watching television.
You know the Singularity is imminent when people stop making fun of it.
You know the Singularity is imminent when Mentifex stops spamming AI lists.
You know the Singularity is imminent when the top line of Peter Thiel's bio reads "Singularity Institute donor" instead of "Paypal founder".
You know the Singularity is imminent when waking up no longer causes your dreams to stop.
You know the Singularity is imminent when everyone takes a week off of work to have sex.
You know the Singularity is imminent when people actually start understanding what Eugen is saying.

In Communist Russia, Singularity sparks you!

Edited by MichaelAnissimov, 24 February 2006 - 04:02 PM.

[th3hegem0n]

Anissimov!

Haha, what's up man.

You know the Singularity is imminent when the top line of Peter Thiel's bio reads "Singularity Institute donor" instead of "Paypal founder".

Done.

wikipedia:

"Peter Thiel is an American businessman, entrepreneur and Singularity Institute donor, widely known as co-founder (with Max Levchin) and former CEO of PayPal, once proposing that PayPal could be a catalyst for change in world politics [1]."


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[psudoname]

You know the Singularity is imminent when everyone takes a week off of work to have sex.

Will this be when we can artificially rewire the brain?

Hopefully everyone won't be so busy wireheading and getting laid that technological progress stops....

[John Schloendorn]

...when people finally have better things to do than daydreaming about it [thumb]

[advancedatheist]

. . . when the sign that greets you at the border of Arizona says, "Welcome to the Desert -- of the Real."

[JonesGuy]

You know the technological Singularity is imminent when Google introduces "googlebrain".

Google your Brain

Not yet ... but someday

[advancedatheist]

. . . men dressed like 1960's Secret Service agents accost you and address you as "Mister Anderson."

. . . your girlfriend keeps morphing between Cameron Diaz and Penelope Cruz.

. . . you find an origami of a unicorn in front of your door.

[advancedatheist]

. . . your PC addresses you as Dr. Forbin, and insists that you call it Colossus.

[Mind]

Robots perform heart surgery by themselves

[RighteousReason]

Brains begin to fuse with transistors...?

[rjws]

when you can make or destroy with a pinch of dust blown from your hand.....


(nanobots can be fun)

[mikelorrey]

When primitive islamofascist luddite terrorist savages wage a more effective internet PR campaign out of a cave in Pakistan than the entire US Government.

[RighteousReason]

primitive islamofascist luddite terrorist savages

...nice

[amar]

The singularity is imminent when the only military time is the time kept on the Playstation 23.

[jaydfox]

Playstation 23? Wow, you're cynical. At the rate Sony's been putting PS's out, that'd be about a century from now.

[amar]

There is a faint possibility that I could still be alive by then, if humanity's competitive war and destruction impulse hasn't killed me off by then. I figure that if the singularity is supposedly more intelligent than humans, it ought to stop warring (except in innocently evil video games) which would take at least a century to even slow down the warrior impulse at the rate we're going.

[Bruce Klein]

I'll be happy to provide the mayo...

[John Schloendorn]

when I eat my hat...

Surely AI would figure out a way to make this experience a pleasant one for you.

[Lazarus Long]

When everybody understands everyone else perfectly well regardless of what language they speak or culture they come from.

[RighteousReason]

the AI may decide to pretend it does not exist since it will realize that by existing it would threaten our development?

People always ask that. It's possible that could happen, but anything else could happen too.

[caston]

You know the Singularity is imminent when...
your computer gets jealous when you have a date.

AGI gets to Mars before we do. Two weeks later your new laptop has a little sticker that reads "product of 01"


you can't find the the information you want in a websearch so google researches and creates the page for you

Your blog writes itself

your fridge knows when you've had to much beer

your friend calls up to thank you for the birthday gift that you forgot about but somehow still got bought and posted to them

You require a fibre internet connection to get a standard market feed

You e-mail product support with a question and get an e-mail that solves your problem seconds later

your boss says you don't have to come to work anymore but he'll still pay you

your pet mouse turns 20

you get an e-mail from your parents even though they are still in cryonics

you never hear on-hold music again

your computer declares that its now a marxist

the contacts on your msn list are intelligent

The AGI's open their own imminst.org forums accounts and start making all the directors look like basic members

Edited by caston, 09 July 2006 - 12:45 PM.

[Bruce Klein]

Ya know the Technological Singularity is imminent when Eric Baum posts this list to the AGIRI discussion list.