Quotes About Singularity

Eliezer Yudkowsky, one of the founders of The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, believes that singularity will lead to an "intelligence explosion" as super-intelligent machines design even more intelligent machines, with each generation repeating this process.

I play like Bill, I can't play like anybody else!

We will still need to consider the implications of our blind faith in technology because the iGods' promises did not point to or include the divine. Instead, they suggested that we are becoming divine as we develop such amazing intelligence within smaller and smaller devices, so small that a point of Singularity will blur humanity with machine, our minds with eternity. Should we find this inspiring or distressing? What is the telos of technology—the end goal?

From the beginning, about the rude altar of the god, to the days of Goethe, of Leopardi, and of Victor Hugo, the poet is the leader in the dance of life; and the phrase by which we name his singularity, the poetic temperament, denotes the primacy of that passion in his blood with which the frame of other men is less richly charged.

I never met a normal person and neither have you.

Being original is the best thing you'll ever be.

You wouldn't even know anything about being original even if it slapped you in the face and danced naked in front of you.

cuántos artículos en los últimos veinte años se han escrito sobre las mujeres que dan miedo a los hombres, sobre las que se han quedado solas, las que han sido castigadas por su ambición o su singularidad? Como si ser viuda, estar sola o abandonada en tiempos de guerra, o ser maltratadafuera una invención reciente. Siempre hemos tenido que arreglárnoslas sin la ayuda de nadie

Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one man.

In this world of stars, I just want to be different

Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eye, which makes her the center of attention.

transhumanism

Ray Kurzweil

Ray Kurzweil, dreamed of the Singularity, the moment when human and machine intelligence would merge

Singularity

me gustaría pensar que no soy como <> y que mi comportamiento no se ajusta al común de los mortales

You name it, we had it. It won't happen again. You're not going to duplicate this show.

I didn't want to be the next version of any player - I wanted to establish my own name.

You can't expect to be better than everybody else if you're doing the same thing as everybody else.

everyone else in the world

El único camino para estar con los otros de verdad era estar separado de los otros, imponer tercamente a sí y a los otros esa incómoda singularidad y soledad en todas las horas y en todos los momentos de su vida, como es la vocación del poeta, del explorador, del revolucionario.

From the structure of language comes the explanation of why the human spirit is condemned to an odyssey - why it first finds its way to itself only on a detour via a complete externalization in other things and in other humans. Only at the greatest distance from itself does it become conscious of itself in its irreplaceable singularity as an individuated being.

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.… Can events be guided so that we may survive? VERNOR VINGE, 1993

I don't think that a Singularity would be visible to those going through one. Even the most disruptive changes are not universally or immediately distributed, and late followers learn from the reactions and dilemmas of those who had initially encountered the disruptive change.