MachineMachine /stream - tagged with singularity https://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress therourke@gmail.com <![CDATA[Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter | The New Yorker]]> https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/why-computers-wont-make-themselves-smarter

In the eleventh century, St. Anselm of Canterbury proposed an argument for the existence of God that went roughly like this: God is, by definition, the greatest being that we can imagine; a God that doesn’t exist is clearly not as great as a God that does exist; ergo, God must exist.

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Mon, 17 May 2021 23:55:43 -0700 https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/why-computers-wont-make-themselves-smarter
<![CDATA[Kinja]]> https://fusion.kinja.com/life-extension-technology-gives-us-a-bleak-future-more-1793857274

I was raised in a household in which my mother, a divorced old-school feminist, openly hoped for the day when the “racist, angry old white men,” who keep our country in sociopolitical purgatory, would die.

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Thu, 08 Apr 2021 05:55:22 -0700 https://fusion.kinja.com/life-extension-technology-gives-us-a-bleak-future-more-1793857274
<![CDATA[psychcentral.com]]> https://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2014/03/08/why-ray-kurzweil-is-wrong-computers-wont-be-smarter-than-us-anytime-soon/

“When Kurzweil first started talking about the “singularity”, a conceit he borrowed from the science-fiction writer Vernor Vinge, he was dismissed as a fantasist.

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Thu, 08 Apr 2021 05:55:20 -0700 https://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2014/03/08/why-ray-kurzweil-is-wrong-computers-wont-be-smarter-than-us-anytime-soon/
<![CDATA[The Conspiracy Singularity Has Arrived]]> https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7gz53/the-conspiracy-singularity-has-arrived

The document was a single, bright red sheet of paper, crowded with close-set black type. Different kinds of lines and arrows connected in wild formulations, linking George Soros with the Illuminati, various stars of the UFO community with their alleged handlers, the CIA with Alex Jones.

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Sun, 26 Jul 2020 02:13:27 -0700 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7gz53/the-conspiracy-singularity-has-arrived
<![CDATA[The Conspiracy Singularity Has Arrived]]> https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7gz53/the-conspiracy-singularity-has-arrived

The document was a single, bright red sheet of paper, crowded with close-set black type. Different kinds of lines and arrows connected in wild formulations, linking George Soros with the Illuminati, various stars of the UFO community with their alleged handlers, the CIA with Alex Jones.

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Sat, 25 Jul 2020 22:13:27 -0700 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7gz53/the-conspiracy-singularity-has-arrived
<![CDATA[OpenAI debuts gigantic GPT-3 language model with 175 billion parameters]]> https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/guc665/openai_debuts_gigantic_gpt3_language_model_with/

submitted by /u/DukkyDrake to r/singularity [link] [comments]

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Sun, 31 May 2020 19:24:21 -0700 https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/guc665/openai_debuts_gigantic_gpt3_language_model_with/
<![CDATA[The right-wing politics of the “Singularity” | Salon.com]]> https://www.salon.com/2018/05/26/the-right-wing-politics-of-the-singularity/

Silicon Valley is not a place known for its religiosity, yet a remarkable number of tech leaders and workers have an irrational belief in the Singularity.

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Mon, 11 Jun 2018 05:02:38 -0700 https://www.salon.com/2018/05/26/the-right-wing-politics-of-the-singularity/
<![CDATA[Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand | News | The Guardian]]> https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/15/why-silicon-valley-billionaires-are-prepping-for-the-apocalypse-in-new-zealand

How an extreme libertarian tract predicting the collapse of liberal democracies – written by Jacob Rees-Mogg’s father – inspired the likes of Peter Thiel to buy up property across the Pacific by If you’re interested in the end of the world, you’re interested in New Zealand.

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Tue, 13 Mar 2018 08:03:12 -0700 https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/15/why-silicon-valley-billionaires-are-prepping-for-the-apocalypse-in-new-zealand
<![CDATA[Artificial intelligence: ‘Homo sapiens will be split into a handful of gods and the rest of us’ | Business | The Guardian]]> https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/nov/07/artificial-intelligence-homo-sapiens-split-handful-gods

A new report suggests that the marriage of AI and robotics could replace so many jobs that the era of mass employment could come to an end If you wanted relief from stories about tyre factories and steel plants closing, you could try relaxing with a new 300-page report from Bank of Ame

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Sun, 26 Nov 2017 07:31:02 -0800 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/nov/07/artificial-intelligence-homo-sapiens-split-handful-gods
<![CDATA[Silicon Valley’s Radical Machine Cult - Motherboard]]> https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kz7jem/silicon-valley-digitalism-machine-religion-artificial-intelligence-christianity-singularity-google-facebook-cult

We are witnessing the beginning of Silicon Valley institutionalizing its religious beliefs.

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Sun, 26 Nov 2017 07:30:57 -0800 https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kz7jem/silicon-valley-digitalism-machine-religion-artificial-intelligence-christianity-singularity-google-facebook-cult
<![CDATA[Resisting Reduction Manifesto: against the Singularity, for a "culture of flourishing" / Boing Boing]]> https://boingboing.net/2017/10/31/an-unknowable-world.html

Joi Ito's Resisting Reduction manifesto rejects the idea of reducing the world to a series of computable relationships that will eventually be overtaken by our ability to manipulate them with computers ("the Singularity") and instead to view the world as full of irreducible complexities and "to d

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Sun, 26 Nov 2017 07:30:54 -0800 https://boingboing.net/2017/10/31/an-unknowable-world.html
<![CDATA[Artificial intelligence: ‘Homo sapiens will be split into a handful of gods and the rest of us’ | Business | The Guardian]]> https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/nov/07/artificial-intelligence-homo-sapiens-split-handful-gods

A new report suggests that the marriage of AI and robotics could replace so many jobs that the era of mass employment could come to an end If you wanted relief from stories about tyre factories and steel plants closing, you could try relaxing with a new 300-page report from Bank of Ame

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Mon, 20 Nov 2017 09:51:02 -0800 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/nov/07/artificial-intelligence-homo-sapiens-split-handful-gods
<![CDATA[Silicon Valley’s Radical Machine Cult - Motherboard]]> https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kz7jem/silicon-valley-digitalism-machine-religion-artificial-intelligence-christianity-singularity-google-facebook-cult

We are witnessing the beginning of Silicon Valley institutionalizing its religious beliefs.

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Mon, 20 Nov 2017 09:50:57 -0800 https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kz7jem/silicon-valley-digitalism-machine-religion-artificial-intelligence-christianity-singularity-google-facebook-cult
<![CDATA[Resisting Reduction Manifesto: against the Singularity, for a "culture of flourishing" / Boing Boing]]> https://boingboing.net/2017/10/31/an-unknowable-world.html

Joi Ito's Resisting Reduction manifesto rejects the idea of reducing the world to a series of computable relationships that will eventually be overtaken by our ability to manipulate them with computers ("the Singularity") and instead to view the world as full of irreducible complexities and "to d

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Mon, 20 Nov 2017 09:50:54 -0800 https://boingboing.net/2017/10/31/an-unknowable-world.html
<![CDATA[Singularities and Sisyphean Spikes in literature and film]]> http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/310744

Looking for literary/filmic examples of singularities, infinite pits, wormholes, whirlpools, bore holes, large spacetimes in tiny crevices.

But also... Peaks too high to navigate, infinite ascents, Sisyphean feats of endurance, energy spikes set to break reality, very tall towers.

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Sun, 02 Jul 2017 07:32:29 -0700 http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/310744
<![CDATA[Yuval Harari's New Book Feeds the Tech Czars' God Complex]]> http://www.thedailybeast.com/yuval-hararis-new-book-feeds-the-tech-czars-god-complex

What do the most powerful people in the world read? For Donald Trump, the depressing but familiar answer is nothing beyond tweets and headlines.

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Thu, 08 Jun 2017 08:01:49 -0700 http://www.thedailybeast.com/yuval-hararis-new-book-feeds-the-tech-czars-god-complex
<![CDATA[Ghost in the Cloud | Issue 28 | n+1]]> https://nplusonemag.com/issue-28/essays/ghost-in-the-cloud/

“ Ido plan to bring back my father,” Ray Kurzweil says. He is standing in the anemic light of a storage unit, his frame dwarfed by towers of cardboard boxes and oblong plastic bins. He wears tinted eyeglasses.

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Tue, 25 Apr 2017 08:01:30 -0700 https://nplusonemag.com/issue-28/essays/ghost-in-the-cloud/
<![CDATA[Silicon Valley Would Rather Cure Death Than Make Life Worth Living | WIRED]]> https://www.wired.com/2017/03/silicon-valley-rather-cure-death-make-life-worth-living/

Silicon Valley is coming for death. But it’s looking in the wrong place. After disrupting the way we love, communicate, travel, work, and even eat, technologists believe they can solve the ultimate problem.

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Sat, 25 Mar 2017 07:49:22 -0700 https://www.wired.com/2017/03/silicon-valley-rather-cure-death-make-life-worth-living/
<![CDATA[Singularities panel, Transmediale 2017]]> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd1LHsnlVC8

With Luiza Prado & Pedro Oliveira (A parede), Rasheedah Phillips, Dorothy R. Santos Moderated by Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke

A singularity is a point in space-time of such unfathomable density that the very nature of reality is brought into question. Associated with elusive black holes and the alien particles that bubble up from quantum foam at their event horizon, the term ‘singularity’ has also been co-opted by cultural theorists and techno-utopianists to describe moments of profound social, ontological, or material transformation—the coming-into-being of new worlds that redefine their own origins. Panelists contend with the idea of singularities and ruptures, tackling transformative promises of populist narratives, and ideological discrepancies that are deeply embedded in art and design practices. By reflecting on Afrofuturism and digital colonialism, they will also question narcissistic singularities of 'I,' 'here,' and 'now', counter the rhetoric of technological utopias, and confound principles of human universality.

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Wed, 01 Mar 2017 06:10:50 -0800 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd1LHsnlVC8
<![CDATA[Singularities panel, Transmediale (5th Feb 2017)]]> http://additivism.org/post/157310071576

Singularities panel, Transmediale (5th Feb 2017)The video of our #Singularities panel at Transmediale is now online:Featuring the extraordinary talents of Luiza Prado & Pedro Oliveira (A parede), Rasheedah Phillips, and Dorothy R. Santos speaking (and performing) on refiguring techno-colonialist and heteronormative pasts, presents, futures and identities.The introduction to the panel - written by Morehshin and myself - can be found here. Photos from the panel are here.Stick around for the discussion and Q&A

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Thu, 16 Feb 2017 02:02:15 -0800 http://additivism.org/post/157310071576