A V for Vendetta World Not Far Off

[j2k4]

I believe in the Matrix

Oh.

[3RA1N1AC]

but do you believe in the The Singularity?

[j2k4]

but do you believe in the The Singularity?

We can do little more than acknowledge such theories.

They are fascinating, aren't they?

[3RA1N1AC]

for better or worse, true. 'cause... however much a theory like this sounds (to some people) like a lot of foregone conclusions, we've got no idea when it might happen, whether it'll be any good (by our definitions), or whether there's anything any of us could do to influence the outcome. still. can't help being a bit fascinated with it, anyway.

[GepperRankins]

i know penn and teller are as neutral as vinegar, but this video has some pretty interesting facts


http://revver.com/video/3356/13046

[ZaZu]

but do you believe in the The Singularity?

Thanks for that, was new to me ... an interesting read

[ahctlucabbuS]

I think ideas out there will tend to get realized. You can't realize a concept without first bringing the idea of the concept into mind. So also with 1984, perhaps. Point beeing that the idea of this society is out there. Someone, or some group, might just make it happen.

I will certainly watch the movie now.

[bulgie]

but do you believe in the The Singularity?

Arrival of said singularity will be delayed for a while if not kiboshed completely by the end of civilization as we know it about to happen as the oil wars heat up. It's started already of course. As the earth's population both increases and industrializes, increasing the demand for oil, simultaneously the finite amount of remaining oil becomes harder and harder to find.

We may have already reached the historic point of peak oil production (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil) and begun the descent into the chaos of a world unable (and often unwilling) to convert to renewable resources in time.

Anyone still believe the wars in Iraq and Afganistan are about bringing democracy to those countries? I wish we could bring it to to the USA.

I wish a technological singularity was the worst thing we had to worry about.

[longboneslinger]

Methinks that rat boy is being a smartass

Actually all the above are the direct result of public apathy. People are 2 damned lazy to police themselves. "We want the government to fix it!" carps the whining masses. Only near total and complete apathy can explain why anydamnone would want an institution that has proven itself so aggressively incompetant at policing itself should be expected to police anydamnbody else with anything but aggressive incompetance.
Moral relatavism in action. Enjoy.
Later taters,
bone

[j2k4]

Where you been, 'bone?

Long bloody time...