At the Singularity Summit
Posted on September 8th, 2007 by miron
The most memorable morning session at the Singularity Summit 2007 was the inimitable Eliezer Yudkowsky‘s.
He talked about three different schools of thought about the Singularity:
Vingean – where prediction becomes impossible
Accelerationist – exponential technological change
Greater than Human Inteligence – in a positive feedback loop
His thesis was that the three schools reinforce but also contradict each-other.
Another good point Eliezer makes is that advances in scientific knowledge and algorithms reduce the threshold for the Singularity.