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Technological Singularity: The Post- st Biological 21 Century Edited by Paul Budding Introduction This is an edited paper on the Technological Singularity. Most of the extracts that I select will be the words of Ray Kurzweil. Kurzweil is a Scientific Futurist… I am more of a Cultural Futurist. However I can see that Kurzweil's trajectory is on- track. He seems to be more in-tune with the timing of technological developments than anyone else is. Hence I do not challenge his scientific futurism. It would appear that there now exists a science of technological evolution that is as reliable as weather forecasting. However, other players within the technological singularity have contributed to the field. For example Eliezer Yudkowsky and Michael Anissimov are smart and well- worth quoting in this paper. Moreover Rachel Marone's categorizing of Futurists has been used by me already in this introduction (i.e., I referred to 'Scientific Futurist' and 'Cultural Futurist'.) I would not have used those terms if I hadn't read Marone's categorizing. Hence I wrote a paper that sought to distinguish Cultural Futurism and Sci-Fi Futurism from one-another. I have selected extracts from that essay in this paper. And I reference Marone's H+ Magazine article that influenced me. Indeed, there will be a slant towards categorizing terminology in this essay because it is helpful for clarity. For example Kurzweil insists that the term 'Transhuman' is misleading because we are not going to go beyond our humanity, we are going to enhance it. We are only going to go beyond our biology. Hence I have titled this essay "Technological Singularity: The Post-Biological 21st Century". Any material that I include in this paper DOES equate to an endorsement by me concerning what is said. But note that it does NOT imply that I agree with everything else that the person being quoted has ever said in their work. This will be clear to some readers who will understand that there are differences in opinion from one futurist (that I quote) to another futurist (that I quote). And that is a good thing because when pieced together the reader gets a clear idea of my specific brand of futurism. 1 What is the Singularity? REFERENCE: Kurzweil, January 2006, in Singularity: Ubiquity interviews Ray Kurzweil, http://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=1117663 UBIQUITY:: Why don't you talk a little bit about the notion of "singularity"? Set the premise for us. KURZWEIL: Sure. It's actually a complicated premise, but there are several key ideas. First of all, there's the idea that technology in general is accelerating rapidly, and information technology in particular is doubling its power, as measured in price performance and bandwidth capacity, every year. We will see the power of information technology multiplied by a factor of a billion in 25 years. If you imagine increasing the power of computers for the same price, computation, communication, as well as our knowledge of biology, and knowledge of intelligence processes in the brain, by a factor of a billion in 25 years, it's quite a formidable result. The second observation is that information technology is not just computerized devices like MP3 and cell phones, but is something that is deeply influencing every aspect of our lives, including our biology, our knowledge of intelligence, worldwide communications, and so on. People say, well, exponential progressions can't go on forever: like rabbits in Australia they eat up the foliage and then the exponential growth stops. But what we see actually in these information technologies is that the exponential growth associated with a specific paradigm (like, for example, shrinking transistors on an integrated circuit, which underlies Moore's Law) may come to an end, but that doesn't stop the ongoing exponential progression of information technology -- it just yields to another paradigm. REFERENCE: The Singularity of Ray Kurzweil (vice.com) http://www.vbs.tv/en-gb/watch/motherboard/the-singularity-of-ray-kurzweil "The exponential growth of information technology is inevitable." "Capturing the real world in information technology [means] understanding biology in our computers, understanding music in our computers, understanding 2 human language, other mental processes, medical diagnosis […] there's many thousands of steps [that get you] from here to there." REFERENCE: Kurzweil, 2005, p13&14, The Singularity is Near: When Humans transcend Biology (Penguin Books) "I emphasize the exponential-verses-linear perspective because it's the most important failure that prognosticators make in considering future trends. Most technology forecasts and forecasters ignore altogether this historical exponential view of the future. That's why people tend to overestimate what can be achieved in the short-term (because we want to leave out necessary details) but underestimate what can be achieved in the long-term (because exponential growth is ignored). REFERENCE: Kurzweil, 2005, p13, The Singularity is Near: When Humans transcend Biology (Penguin Books) "Consider the biochemists who, in 1990, were sceptical of the goal of transcribing the entire human genome in a mere fifteen years. These scientists had just spent an entire year transcribing a mere one ten-thousandth of the genome. So, even with reasonable anticipated advances, it seemed natural to them that it would take a century, if not longer, before the entire genome could be sequenced." REFERENCE: Kurzweil, 2005, p73, The Singularity is Near: When Humans transcend Biology (Penguin Books) "Yet the fifteen year project [of transcribing the entire human genome] was completed slightly ahead of schedule, with a first draft in 2003" Kurzweil's point is clear. At first technological innovation is hard but the next steps are easier and the next steps easier still. Hence that is what exponentialism means. Information technology grows exponentially. REFERENCE: Kurzweil, 2005, p72&73, The Singularity is Near: When Humans transcend Biology (Penguin Books) The "law of accelerating returns […] can be charted with remarkable precision in information based technologies [This encompasses a lot] electronics of all kinds, DNA sequencing, communications, brain scanning, brain reverse engineering, the size and scope of human knowledge, and the rapidly shrinking size of technology. The latter trend is directly related to the emergence of nanotechnology." REFERENCE: John Brockman and Ray Kurzweil, 'After the Singularity: A Talk with Ray Kurzweil. http://www.kurzweilai.net/after-the-singularity-a-talk-with- 3 ray-kurzweil "The kinds of scenarios I am talking about 20 or 30 years from now are not being developed because there's one lab that's sitting there creating a human-level AI in a machine. They're happening because it is the end result of thousands of tiny steps. Each step is conservative, not radical and makes perfect sense. Each one is just the next generation in some company's product" REFERENCE: Diamandis, P, http://www.abundancethebook.com/ Peter Diamandis, co-author of the book titled 'Abundance: The Future is Better than you Think" explains: "Any technology that becomes an information technology jumps on Moores Law. [e.g.] When you go to your computer store the computer you buy today is twice as fast as the computer from last year for the same price. Well that same kind of improvement is now going in Synthetic Biology, AI, Robotics…" REFERENCE: Yudkowsky, E. S., Three Major Singularity Schools, http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/schools Eliezer Yudkowsky categorized Singularity thought into three major schools; Accelerating Change, Event Horizon and Intelligence Explosion. He defined the Accelerating Change schools position as follows: o Core claim: Our intuitions about change are linear; we expect roughly as much change as has occurred in the past over our own lifetimes. But technological change feeds on itself, and therefore accelerates. Change today is faster than it was 500 years ago, which in turn is faster than it was 5000 years ago. Our recent past is not a reliable guide to how much change we should expect in the future. o Strong claim: Technological change follows smooth curves, typically exponential. Therefore we can predict with fair precision when new technologies will arrive, and when they will cross key thresholds, like the creation of Artificial Intelligence. REFERENCE: Kurzweil, The Singularity: A Talk with Ray Kurzweil http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/kurzweil_singularity/kurzweil_singularity_print .html (Edge.org) 4 Kurzweil: "We use one stage of technology to create the next stage, which is why technology accelerates, why it grows in power. Today, for example, a computer designer has these tremendously powerful computer system design tools to create computers, so in a couple of days they can create a very complex system and it can all be worked out very quickly. The first computer designers had to actually draw then all out in pen on paper. Each generation of tools creates the power to create the next generation." Kurzweil thinks that in recent years a greater public awareness has developed concerning fast technological growth. However he also says that some "otherwise thoughtful people" fail to factor into their thinking the fact that "the pace of [technological] change itself has accelerated. [...] the last 20 years are not a good guide to the next 20 years. We're doubling the paradigm shift rate of progress, every decade. This will actually match the amount of progress we made in the whole 20th century, because we've been accelerating up to this point. The 20th century was like 25 years of change at today's rate of change. In the next 25 years we'll make four times the progress you saw in the 20th century. And we'll make 20,000 years of progress in the 21st century, which is almost a thousand times more technical change than we saw in the 20th century" 5 Categorizing Futurists I have already referred to Yudkowsky's three major schools concerning the technology Singularity. Similarly Rachel Marone distinguishes between the Scientific Futurist, Cultural Futurist, Professional Futurist and Sci-Fi Futurist. See her H+ Magazine article: Are We Creating the Future by Predicting it? http://hplusmagazine.com/2012/04/04/are-we-creating-the-future-by-predicting- it/ Marone's paper interested me enough to write an essay of my own. I paid particular attention to the categories of Cultural Futurist and Sci-Fi Futurist and I sought to clearly distinguish them from one-another. REFERENCE: Budding, The Significance of Memes, http://www.docstoc.com/docs/118633864/The-significance-of-Memes (Docstoc) Cultural Futurism distinguished from Sci-Fi Futurism "In what I write here I want to distinguish Cultural Futurism from Sci-Fi Futurism. In doing this I will be further demonstrating the significance of memes. Rachel Marones categories are... The Scientific Futurist, Cultural Futurist, Professional Futurist and Sci-Fi Futurist.1 The Cultural Futurist could look as if they are creating a Memeplex. But as we shall see there's more to Cultural Futurism than that. Jung writes "… while personal complexes never produce more than a personal bias, archetypes create myths, religions and philosophical ideas that influence and set their stamp on whole nations and epochs".2 I like the idea of updating Jung's terms... bringing them into the memetic field. 6 Personal Complexes = Repressed Memes Archetypes = Memeplexes Memeplexes are groups of associations invested with positive numinosity and cemented into the unconscious. It is repressed material as far as energetic conscious thinking is concerned. However other people's energetic conscious thinking threatens its existence. So for example traditional religious beliefs are potentially dissociable in a modern western cultural environment. Hence it is psychologically dangerous to become traditionally religious. And in order to hold onto the religious numinosity it slides into a power ego attachment. (i.e., if threatened from other voices) So the Cultural Futurist surely needs to invest a significant quantity of energetic conscious thinking into their Memeplex otherwise it becomes too slanted towards psychological religion and myth. Indeed it becomes Sci-Fi futurism without an investment of energetic conscious thinking. This is not to underestimate the scientific intelligence of many Sci-Fi authors. I watched Socrates interview with the Sci-Fi writer Robert Sawyer yesterday and Sawyer is very intelligent on the issue of the technological Singularity. However many individuals who don't write and sell Sci-Fi books may possess a Sci-Fi frame-of-mind which is nothing more than a modernisation of traditional religion from a psychological perspective. So it is the investment of energetic conscious thinking that distinguishes Cultural Futurism from Sci-Fi Futurism. Hence Sawyer may write Sci-Fi but he is clearly a Cultural Futurist. (He himself describes himself as doing philosophy so I think that he has had similar thoughts to me, and may even just be expressing the same thing as I am saying differently). The shared factor (between Cultural Futurism and Sci-Fi Futurism) is the potential for influencing the future. And the distinction then is dependent on futurism or Singularity 'criticism' (i.e., criticism in the academic sense... not as emotional attack) and from looking at the material resulting in you arriving at views of your own. If you just love Sci-Fi and are a 'buff' just lapping up everything, experiencing immersion... then you are a Sci-Fi futurist... and you have your memeplex. Threatened with dissociation I would personally seek to criticise (thus become a Cultural Futurist) rather than repeatedly face attacks from outside. Thus rather than defend-attack forever... you hold a view of your own that is open and thus not dissociable". 7 I then went onto write an article titled "Categories (Concerning Advancing Technology). It was a very small paper so I am posting it in-full here: Categories (Concerning Advancing Technology) "I now add "PROGRESSIVE" to my Self-labelling of technological "REALIST". Also I am aware of the term "Progressive" in politics where I view it as used only partly correctly/partly incorrectly. I also refer to some (not myself) who are Techno Utopians. And there are Dystopians such as Bill Joy. Utopians under-rate life's influence… dystopians under-rate the social context in-which technology is embedded. "'Technology Sceptics' commit two errors when considering innovation: That the innovation will never happen and that they would be astonished if it did. 'Technology Optimists' fare slightly better, committing only the second fallacy (they believe they will find the innovation astonishing when it happens). However, the 'Technology Realist' commits neither mistake, since he or she both expects that the innovation will happen and that we will not be astonished when it does. [I define] a Technology Realist as someone who believes anything theoretically possible will become a proof- of-principle experiment in an R+D lab, that this prototype might one day become a commercially viable technology… and that we will not be astonished by it if and when it arrives on the market)." (Extropia DaSilva, 'The Singularity and the New Intelligence Culture' http://www.docstoc.com/docs/115119062/THE-SINGULARITY-AND-THE- NEW-INTELLIGENCE-CULTURE/) The Term Progressive In politics this label should be taken away from those who pursue only sectional self vested interest. It should be about the pursuit of collective interest within a liberal democracy. (I deliberately say 'within a liberal democracy' because if it's more radical than that then it isn't just progressive… it's revolutionary). Note that I am not stating a political position of my own here. There is a contradiction in defining those pursuing their own sectional interest and those pursuing the collective interest as one-and-the-same thing. It is a contradiction because they will disagree with each other on the bread-and-butter issues. In technology… progressive means what I say it should mean in politics… the pursuit of the collective interest… which is embedded in the social cultural context. As in politics it is distinguished from utopianism and dystopianism. Some 8 people think that it is possible to be a political progressive and a realist. In technology I think that this is the rational position to take up as one's own. Technology is progressive and it's going to happen without the gee-whizz kind of response. People will just accept it and integrate it into their lives. They (i.e. the majority) will not turn the clock back. There will be problems (technology is a double-edged sword) but no dystopia. My Progressive and Realistic Technological Wish-list (Note the Post- biological characteristic) pecific memories for PTSD sufferers) organic/physical causation) replacement of bodily parts with technological parts) Pain/Disease eradication) Life We will not get away from Memes. People will still have to reflect, mature and grow. Psychological problems that are not organic/physical will still exist. Maturity will not be handed to the individual on a plate. Maturity and psychological well- being will not be a 'given' even though there will be no rational reason for distress. There will still be ego attachments and dissociation, relationship problems… the stuff of life. Returning to the categories… there are Tech Realists, Tech Sceptics and Tech Optimists. (See Extropia DaSilva's quote on page 1). Anyone who has thought alittle about technological advances will slant one way or the other concerning these categories. And the Tech Realist will also connect to one of the following three categories: 1) Progressive 2) Utopian 3) Dystopian 9 Likewise the Tech Optimist will link to Progressive or Utopian. But the tech Sceptic who does not believe that technology is advancing anywhere near as much as the Singularity community (and the mainstream) thinks that it is… will swerve and avoid linking to any of those three (Progressive/utopian/dystopia) categories". (For more on the term 'Progressive' as it is used in politics, see 'note' at end of the paper). REFERENCE: Rodney Brooks, 'I, Rodney Brooks, Am A Robot'. http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/i-rodney-brooks-am-a-robot In a paper written in collaboration with Extropia DaSilva, I and DaSilva endorsed Rodney Brooks opinion that the Singularity is a period, not an event. Brooks stated his view as follows: "I don't think there is going to be one single sudden technological "Big Bang" that springs an artificial general intelligence (AGI) into "life". Starting with the mildly intelligent systems we have today, machines will become gradually more intelligent, generation by generation. The singularity will be a period, not an event. This period will encompass a time when we will invent, perfect, and deploy, in fits and starts, ever more capable systems, driven not by the imperative of the singularity itself but by the usual economic and sociological forces" DaSilva observed that Brooks view is in-tune with Kurzweil's statement that he made in the John Brockman interview. (See http://www.docstoc.com/docs/115119062/THE-SINGULARITY-AND-THE- NEW-INTELLIGENCE-CULTURE) REFERENCE: Kurzweil in Katalyst vs. Singularity: A Radical exploration into a subject of our time. (April 15, 2012) Interview with Ray Kurzweil. (http://www.kurzweilai.net/katalyst-vs-singularity) "I think the term "post-humanism" or "trans-humanist" is unfortunate because we're going to transcend our biology, [and] we're going to enhance our humanity. We will be human even if most of the action is with the non-biological portion of our civilization. That's part of who we are as well. I see all these terms as unfortunate, artificial intelligence implies that it's not real intelligence, but it is real. 10 "Virtual reality" implies that it's not real reality, but you and I right now are in a virtual environment – it's called the telephone. So, virtual reality is real reality, artificial intelligence is real intelligence and our future is not going to be post- humanist or trans-humanist, we're going to be trans-biological". 11 WATSON AS AN EXAMPLE OF PROGRESS REFERENCE: Kurzweil, February 13th 2011, The Significance of Watson, http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-significance-of-watson "Computers can "keep track of vast logical structures and remember enormous databases with great accuracy. Search engines such as Google and Bing continue to illustrate this strength of computers. [Watson goes further…] If you watch Watson's performance, it appears to be at least as good as the best "Jeopardy!" players at understanding the nature of the question (or should I say the answer, since "Jeopardy!" presents the answer and asks for the question, which I always thought was a little tedious). Watson is able to then combine this ability to understand the level of language in a "Jeopardy!" query with a computer's innate ability to accurately master a vast corpus of knowledge. I've always felt that once a computer masters a human's level of pattern recognition and language understanding, it would inherently be far superior to a human because of this combination". I would say that computers need to be able to understand contextual discourse combined with mastery of a vast corpus of knowledge. However I fully accept and respect the enormity of the challenge concerning the path to Strong AI. What IBM seemed to have achieved with Watson is an accurate design of a significant aspect of human way of thinking. Hence Watson is progress but needs to be kept in perspective due to the higher ambitions of what the AI researchers seek to achieve. Strong AI will only occur after the reverse engineering of the human brain. 12 MEDICAL (ESSENTIAL) SINGULARITY In the UK the first four months of 2012 saw news reports concerning breakthroughs in technology reducing deaths from heart-attacks in recent years… and vaccines for Meningitis B that will be available later in 2012. However it is perfectly true that you do not need to look very far for stories of great suffering. And that is precisely why medical technological progress is so urgent. I do not take Kurzweil on faith on what he says about eliminating disease, reverse ageing etc… rather I take him on his track record which is excellent. I do not view the Singularity as being specifically about medical science. However I do view the elimination of suffering and death as the most important aspect of the post- biological era. We are in the early phase of the technological Singularity era right now. (I'm writing this in 2012). However the early 21 st century will be primarily remembered for the technological communications revolution as opposed to medical technological science. Later developments will be more significant. Indeed they will be essential. Kurzweil's date for the practical eradication of human physical disease is between 2025 and 2030. He says that biotechnology (specifically genetic biotechnology and genetic molecular science) will achieve a lot but it is nanotechnology that will complete the job. REFERENCE: Kurzweil, 2005, p256, The Singularity is Near: When Humans transcend Biology (Penguin) Most "reverse ageing" will be accomplished using biotechnology methods "such as RNA interference for turning off destructive genes, gene therapy for changing your genetic code, therapeutic cloning for regenerating your cells and tissues, smart drugs to reprogram your metabolic pathways and many other emerging techniques. But whatever biotechnology doesn't get around to accomplishing, we'll have the means to do with nanotechnology". REFERENCE: Kurzweil, 2005, p255&256, The Singularity is Near: When Humans transcend Biology (Penguin) 13 Kurzweil says that nanobots will "keep you healthy. They'll destroy pathogens such as bacteria, viruses, and cancer cells, and they won't be subject to the various pitfalls of the immune system, such as autoimmune reactions. Unlike your biological immune system, if you don't like what the nanobots are doing, you can tell them to do something different […] When nanotechnology is mature, it's going to solve the problems of biology by overcoming biological pathogens, removing toxins, correcting DNA errors, and reversing other sources of ageing. […] For each ageing process, we can describe a means for nanobots to reverse the process, down to the level of individual cells, cell components, and molecules. REFERENCE: Kurzweil in the Independent newspaper (Science Section): 27th September 2009, reporter: Mike Hodgkinson, By 2040 you will be able to upload your brain… "People can wax philosophically" says Kurzweil. "It's very abstract – whether it's a good thing to overcome death or not – but when it comes to some new methodology that's a better treatment for cancer, there's no controversy. Nobody's picketing doctors who put computers inside people's brains for Parkinsons: it's not considered controversial." Might that change as more people become aware of the Singularity and the pace of technological change? "People can argue about it," says Kurzweil […] But when it comes down to accepting each step along the way, it's done really without much debate". REFERENCE: Kurzweil, (Video) The Singularity: Ray Kurzweil, http://knowyourmeme.com/videos/31375-the-singularity (Know your Meme Webpage) "Some people muse philosophically [saying] 'Oh I don't want to live past 100. Well I would love to hear them say that when they are 100. And I do talk to 100 year olds and they want to live to see tomorrow. So it's not a matter that we want to live 500 years. We want to live to see tomorrow. And research shows that the only people that don't want to live to see tomorrow are people in terrible pain, physical or emotional". 14 REFERENCE: Kurzweil, 2005, p324, The Singularity is Near: When Humans transcend Biology (Penguin) Life Expectancy (Years) Cro-Magnon era (c. 20,000 B.C.): 18 years Ancient Egypt (c. 1800 B.C.): 25 years Medieval Europe (c. 1400): 30 years Industrial Revolution in Europe and U.S. (c. 1800): 37 years Second Industrial Revolution (c. 1900): 48 years Internet Age (2002): 78 years REFERENCE: Kurzweil, The Singularity: A Talk with Ray Kurzweil http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/kurzweil_singularity/kurzweil_singularity_print .html (Edge.org) "If you look at human longevity – which is another of those exponential trends – you'll notice that we added a few days every year to the human life expectancy in the 18th century. In the 19th century we added a few weeks every year, and now we're adding over a hundred days a year, through all of these developments which are going to continue to accelerate. Many knowledgeable observers, including myself, feel that within ten years we'll be adding more than a year every year to life expectancy. As we get older, human life expectancy will actually move out at a faster rate than we're actually progressing in age, so if we hang in there, our generation is right on the edge. We have to watch our health the old-fashioned way for a while longer so we're not the last generation to die prematurely. But if you look at our kids, by the time that they're 20, 30, 40 years old, these technologies will be so advanced that human life expectancy will be pushed way out". REFERENCE: Personal Correspondence In 2009 I emailed Ray Kurzweil and asked him what percentage of people alive today (within a margin of error of 10%) will still be alive in 200 years time? He politely replied to my email and said "Order of magnitude: 50%". 15 REFERENCE: Kurzweil, February 3rd 2006, The Futurist/ Reinventing humanity: The Future of human-machine intelligence. (http://www.kurzweilai.net/reinventing-humanity-the-future-of-human-machine- intelligence (Kurzweilai) "Despite the wonderful future potential of medicine, real human longevity will only be attained when we move away from our biological bodies entirely. As we move toward a software-based existence, we will gain the means of "backing ourselves up" (storing the key patterns underlying our knowledge, skills, and personality in a digital setting) thereby enabling a virtual immortality". This leads us nicely onto the goal of mind-uploading. The Futurist Michael Anissimov is passionate about this issue and wrote an article on it in April 2012. (Extracts below) REFERENCE: Anissimov, M, April 13th 2012, What are the Benefits of Mind- Uploading? http://hplusmagazine.com/2012/04/13/what-are-the-benefits-of- mind-uploading (H+ Magazine) "Universal mind uploading, or universal uploading for short, is the concept […] that the technology of mind uploading will eventually become universally adopted by all who can afford it, similar to the adoption of modern agriculture, hygiene, and permanent dwellings. The concept is rather infrequently discussed, due to a combination of 1) its supposedly speculative nature and 2) its "far future" time frame. Yet some futurists, such as myself, see the eventuality as plausible by as early as 2050. Before I explore the idea, let me give a quick description of what mind uploading is and why the two most common roadblocks to its discussion are invalid. Mind uploading would involve simulating a human brain in a computer in enough detail that the "simulation" becomes, for all practical purposes, a perfect copy and experiences consciousness, just like protein-based human minds. If functionalism is true, as many cognitive scientists and philosophers believe, then all the features of human consciousness that we know and love — including all our memories, personality, and sexual quirks — would be preserved through the transition. By simultaneously disassembling the protein brain as the computer brain is constructed, only one implementation of the person in question would exist at any one time, eliminating any unnecessary philosophical confusion. Whether the 16 computer upload is "the same person" is up for the person and his/her family and friends to decide. Still, even if two direct copies are made, the universe won't care — you would have simply created two identical individuals with the same memories. The universe can't get confused — only you can. Regardless of how perplexed one may be by contemplating this possibility for the first time from a 20th century perspective of personal identity, an upload of you with all your memories and personality intact is no different from you than the person you are today is different than the person you were yesterday when you went to sleep, or the person you were 10-30 seconds ago when quantum fluctuations momentarily destroyed and recreated all the particles in your brain. […] indefinite lifespans. Software can have backups which can be restored. This would make uploads effectively immortal. It's pretty clear that mind uploading would be incredibly beneficial, both personally, to civilization as a whole, and to the environment. As stated before, only three elements of personal reckoning are necessary for it to be highly significant — 1) that you believe a brain could be incrementally replaced with functionally identical implants and retain its fundamental characteristics and identity, 2) that the computational capacity of the human brain is a reasonable number, unlikely to be much more than 1019 ops/sec, and 3) that at some point in the future we'll have computers that fast". Of course some people will die before we attain longevity and immortality. However the Singularity community is determined to think of solutions to all kinds of problems and this most definitely includes phenomena that is still regarded as science fiction in 2012. So for example resurrection, formerly an issue that only traditional religion dealt with, has started to be discussed as a possibility by smart people. (See the quantumarchaeology link below). Such an issue deserves serious consideration. It is cosmically wrong to scoff at such discussion. The reason why it is so wrong to scoff at such discussion is because of the unbearable sufferings that have befallen human life through-out history. Quantum Archaeology link: https:sites.google.com/site/quantumarchaeology/ An alternative solution to correcting the pasts tragedies is of course, time-travel. Clearly many people find this an interesting topic; hence its place in movies and television shows etc. However, it is also a very serious issue and if time-travel can 17 become science fact then there is an immense quantity of suffering that can be and needs to be vanquished. Note I hesitated to include this end-note in my essay because this is a technological Singularity paper and not a politics paper. However while technology is the driving force behind the substantial and real progress in society, politics as a social collective phenomena is relevant for dealing with harmful effects of technology (i.e, politics is relevant here in collaboration with science). So there is a link. Moreover a laissez faire government may decide against public spending/investment in technological science research (including medical science) thus slightly slowing the speed of technological science progress. Of course private individual philanthropists may plug the gap. But the greater the public cut the harder it would be to plug the gap. Politically-speaking, the term Progressive tends to get used to define almost any Social Democrat. I will argue here that it shouldn't. Let's say that a Social Democratic politician in a Scandinavian country wishes to get into power in order to simply preside over a society that spends 50% of its national wealth publicly (while allowing 50% to be in private hands). 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Defunding ObamaCare does not really require an active decision by the U.S. House of Representatives. It is the default option-as in what happens if you don't do something.
Constitutionally, the people's House holds the government's purse strings. It does not need to pass a law requiring an agency to stop spending money. It can simply withhold authorization to spend it. That is, the House can simply refuse to act.
Suppose you have a child who is profligately spending your money on things that you disapprove of and that are very harmful-by charging them to your credit card. If the card is about to expire, you don't have to use force to restrain the child, you could simply decline to renew it. more >>
"Raising the debt ceiling, which has been done over a hundred times, does not increase our debt….the average person thinks raising the debt ceiling must mean that we are running up our debt." --Barack Obama
I am not the least bit concerned about the federal government shutdown. My worry is that it might open back up.
All of this could have been avoided if Washington politicians didn't have the budgeting skills of an Ole Miss frat boy. more >>
As the federal government "shuts down," the media are busy doing their usual stellar job of obscuring the facts and shilling for the Democrat Party. According to the typical (yawn) media meme, Democrats are trying to preserve civilization, and Republicans want people to die. How often do we have to see this same tired lie play out?
Have we forgotten what political leadership looks like?
Here is a page from our past that gives us a little glimpse of our future . . . more >>
Christian leaders have criticized Congress today, arguing that its failure to solve a "completely avoidable budget and financial crises" would leave the country's poorest most at risk.
In a letter released Monday, 33 Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders expressed deep concern that "shuttering the federal government or defaulting on the nation's financial commitments is likely to reverse our fragile economic recovery, punish the middle class, and deeply harm our most vulnerable neighbors."
They also called on the House of Representatives' most conservative members to rethink the effect of their actions, warning them that "to hold our governance processes and financial credibility hostage to narrow priorities is not only dangerous to the nation's near-term financial well-being," but that "it threatens the very foundations of our democratic process and our capacity to live united in community." more >>
Recent polls suggest that a majority of Americans agree with congressional Republicans on many of the current debates over government spending and the Affordable Care Act, or "Obamacare." Yet, Republicans in Congress remain deeply unpopular, with most Americans saying they act like spoiled children. This could mean that the public does not like their methods of achieving their goals, or they believe Republicans in Congress are incompetent.
Most Americans, by a two-to-one margin, 61 percent, believe that the debt ceiling should not be raised without conditions that would reduce the amount of debt, currently near $17 trillion, the government continues to accumulate each year, even if those conditions risk default, according to last week's Bloomberg poll. This is consistent with the Republican position and in opposition to President Barack Obama, who has demanded a non-conditional, or "clean," debt ceiling increase.
Polls also show most Americans, like Republicans in Congress, disapprove of the ACA. A recent CNBC poll found only 22 percent of the public who say they support the ACA. more >>
A fascinating article at Bloomberg.com caught my attention recently. It was the kind of article that puts the power of the Cross into focus, once again. t involves a conversation about death.
Apparently there is a new fad engulfing our culture where friends and family gather together to talk about – of all subjects – death. A project called "Let's Have Dinner and Talk about Death" is trying to start a national conversation about death and dying in this country and around the world. The project stemmed from a Master of Communication in Digital Media (MCDM) course at The University of Washington.
According to their web site, the group is made up of "everyone from oncologists, gravestone designers, palliative care experts, authors, curators, health care CEOs and artists to spark a powerful movement around facing death and planning for end of life. We're putting out a call to action for people to start a conversation with their friends or family about death- and we're giving people the tools to make it easier, more meaningful, and even fun." more >>


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Actor Peter Sarsgaard is currently in negotiations to play the role of Lovelace's husband, Chuck Traynor, the man responsible for getting his wife involved in the X-rated film industry. Lovelace is perhaps best known for her role in 'Deep Throat', which is currently among the highest grossing independent films in movie history.
Based on the book 'The Complete Linda Lovelace' by Eric Danville, the script for the film will be penned by Andy Bellin and W. Merritt Johnson. Millennium Films, Eclectic Pictures and Untitled Entertainment will all be involved in the upcoming project.
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besides invent krytonite to get even for all the really really bad atomic wedgies you got in school
what would you do if everybody else was a superman but you ?
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I don't know... I guess try to invent armor or something to make me even with them.
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Become Batman or die trying..........most likely the latter. Or I would experiment on myself to get powers or die trying.........probably the latter. Maybe I would try to accept and live my life or kill myself due to failure ........................99%chance the latter
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Hit myself with gamma rays to become the Hulk or try to find Mjolnir and hope I'm worthy to lift it.
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An hero. Seriously, comic book hell doesn't even seem that bad.
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become a batman and beat-up superman with kryptonite brass knuckles.
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Find the nearest cliff or high rise building and jump. You can't fool me, I know I'm Bruce Wayne and that this is a dream within a dream.
Really, I would be living a Hell, depending on how long I was alive for in this scenario but in our comics case it may be indefinitely. And by Hell, I mean the worst and most unique one on the planet, or Universe even if we're being technical and actually involving scripted Kryptonians in this. First, I am now the loneliest and most hopeless person in existence, as you see there's that whole thing about the thoughts and feelings people have where " no one understands them ", " they're the only one that knows what it's like to be them therefore always alone. " ect, yeah? Well, in real life those things aren't actually true. We maintain hope in those situations because the world is vast and we haven't met everyone, so the unknown says to us " there may be someone like me. ". And there is. We're not that rare or unique at the end of the day, at best just due to simple math we fall into categories of lesser or more than what we're not. The second actualization is doing the actual work and searching and researching the facts and assuring yourself there are others, and also, allowing yourself to accept it and be humbled, ei: The greatest lesson in life I ever learned is just to love and be loved in return. But, in this scenario I wouldn't find the light at the end of the tunnel because it's not actually there. I really am the only one in the universe, so there goes the hope as well. The second big problem here: We all read comics of course so we all know how the story goes. There's one thing good or bad that supermen and superwomen do...focus on the non-powered one. I just became the stage prop for every person alive but myself. I'm the victim that gets victimized and needs to be saved, I'm the leverage used against all of the heroic ones, I'm the very measuring stick by which all the super humans weigh their own actions, define themselves towards or against their own humanity and fallibility, and you see where this is going, and it's 24 hours a day. Needless to say as the sole person everyone else's life revolves around and in danger 100% of the time, I'm now living a life, one comparable to that of a football, that doesn't have an equivalent horror to match. Interesting question BTW, more like this. Does The Dude abide?
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jump in a vat of toxic waste
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jump in a vat of toxic waste
I wouldn't know how to live
@HolySerpent: What would you do if you were kryptonian?
Adopt to the social norms since everyone else is a kryptonian, but if i was the only one. I wouldn't be some hero
Shave my head and start painting rocks green. :P
Either that, or just wait around for somebody who doesn't share Superman's moral code to bust down my door and rip me into an empty sausage casing simply because they can. Wouldn't have to wait long.
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I would loose my hair and develop ways of destroying these inferior aliens...
Pretty much this.
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As someone above said...I'd Become a Batman
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try to be someones lois lane
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Man that would suck, if everyone was as strong as Superman, then the world would be build accordingly and you would be complety useless and totally handicapped. Maybe i would try to go villian on their ass... somehow, even though that in the comics Superman is atleast a big challenge for even the strongest super villians, so i dont really know what i could do to challenge 7 billion of them.
But think about it, if everyone was ''Superman'' then it would not be super anymore, they would just be ''normal'' and you would be seen as handicapped, just like we see people with muscular dystrophy or paraplegics... just much, much worse, you would be the most handicapped man to have ever lived, you would need help with everything, i mean if everyone could benchpress 500 quadrillion tons and move at the speed of light then every aspect of life would look totally different, would we even use maschines? I mean if Superman choose to use his powers for the building industry he could do the same work in minuts that we could in years.
You would basicly live in a world where everyone moved around at light speed, conqure galaxies in weeks, human society would evolve a million times faster than now, you would be an ant on a planet of 7 billion gods.. You would be forgotten, everything would just flow infront of you without you understanding.
It would be an interesting story actually.
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I'm fairly certain I would get a temp job in an ad agency bringing coffee and snacks to the workers, filing paperwork and fixing the copier. I couldn't get fired because my super social worker would threaten them with lawsuits for discrimination. Technically, I'd be special needs.
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I would become Lex Luthor, clearly.
Thumbs up to everyone who said Bats or Lex.
In a world where Supermen live with their uncaring brutish force, use your intelligence, and outsmart the brute.
Not saying Supes is stupid, but everyone as a Superman can't be intelligent like the man of steele, right?
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I become Reed Richards. And sell my inventions to make the lives of all Supermen everywhere better and get filthy rich doing it. XD
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Blink them out of existence of course! Superman ain't real! Haha!
Congratulate everyone for their new found powers. I would help them put if I could since there be people that will be nervous of the changes. They would have difficulty with being gentle and although I may be a little clumsy they may need my help. I would be thankful for their understanding that I cannot do their super feats. I will take the Fluttershy approach
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You would end up like that Bella from the Twilight movies, the most weak, irratating, pointless person alive on the planet.....who everyone happens to want for some reason. Thats what it would be like to be the last human in a world of Kryptonians lmao
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