The best singularity quote in years

[anhinga_drafts]

"if the Singularity ever does arrive, I expect it to be plagued by frequent outages and terrible customer service" -- Scott Aaronson in his The Singularity Is Far posting.

On the other hand, speaking about customer service and outages in our current Matrix...

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[spamsink.livejournal.com]

Много лет назад я видел в USENETе (в чьей-то .signature) фразу: дескать, тема восстания роботов или компьютеров против людей в научной фантастике прекратилась с выходом MS-DOS. Кто ее автор, я не запомнил.

[anhinga-anhinga.livejournal.com]

Indeed :-) And this also explains the properties of the current Matrix: http://xkcd.com/224/

[http://users.livejournal.com/_rowan_tree_/]

I've been telling you this for years!

[anhinga-anhinga.livejournal.com]

But this does not change my forecast -- between 10 months and 5 years from now ;-)

But "frequent outages and terrible customer service" description does shed some new light onto that ;-)

[anhinga-anhinga.livejournal.com]

and comments in these 2 threads contain a very interesting discussion related to Friendly AI and OpenCog:

http://xuenay.livejournal.com/325723.html
http://lesswrong.com/lw/1mm/advice_for_ai_makers/1h80