I heard David Pearce speak recently, and he mentioned in passing that he is “not a starry-eyed Singularitarian”, and by this he seemed to mean that he thought brain uploading was infeasible. But elsewhere in the talk he spoke casually of utilitronium shockwaves and jupiter brains and pleasure plasma.
I don’t even know what the Singularity is anymore. In fact, I never did. I suspect that the disclaimer “I am not a Singularitarian” means “I am not Eliezer Yudkowsky circa 1999, although everything he says nowadays is quite reasonable.”
Ah, I get it now! I think Carrier’s argument was that computing power will not exceed that as already predicted by Moore’s Law, though I’m not exactly sure why, or how that disproves the Singularity.
and by this he seemed to mean that he thought brain uploading was infeasible. But elsewhere in the talk he spoke casually of utilitronium shockwaves and jupiter brains and pleasure plasma
Wait, what? Isn’t brain uploading obviously easier than those other things?
I can’t speak for him, but he possibly meant that brain uploading won’t be feasible for a while, and the posthuman era will be ushered in with implants, gene therapy, drugs, etc.
I heard David Pearce speak recently, and he mentioned in passing that he is “not a starry-eyed Singularitarian”, and by this he seemed to mean that he thought brain uploading was infeasible. But elsewhere in the talk he spoke casually of utilitronium shockwaves and jupiter brains and pleasure plasma.
I don’t even know what the Singularity is anymore. In fact, I never did. I suspect that the disclaimer “I am not a Singularitarian” means “I am not Eliezer Yudkowsky circa 1999, although everything he says nowadays is quite reasonable.”
Ah, I get it now! I think Carrier’s argument was that computing power will not exceed that as already predicted by Moore’s Law, though I’m not exactly sure why, or how that disproves the Singularity.
Wait, what? Isn’t brain uploading obviously easier than those other things?
I can’t speak for him, but he possibly meant that brain uploading won’t be feasible for a while, and the posthuman era will be ushered in with implants, gene therapy, drugs, etc.