I mean, it’s possible that a message of “these people are kinda weird and crazy, and even if they get their stuff to work it might not end well” gives the idea that the singularity has some kind of possibility of success, at least in comparison to a simple “these people are crazy, look at their crazy ideas and their weird ideals”.
I can see how one might think that, but it reads to me a bit differently. It read to me to be closer to trying to simply end on an interesting note, or alternatively to be an example of belief overkill/arguments as soldiers where the author is simply trying to marshal as many possible possible arguments that sound like they go against the entire Singularity idea.
I would say that either of those was probably her intention; perhaps I’m being optimistic in hoping that she might have accidentally said something that gives even the tiniest amount of validity to an idea that I feel more people should care about.
I can see how one might think that, but it reads to me a bit differently. It read to me to be closer to trying to simply end on an interesting note, or alternatively to be an example of belief overkill/arguments as soldiers where the author is simply trying to marshal as many possible possible arguments that sound like they go against the entire Singularity idea.
I would say that either of those was probably her intention; perhaps I’m being optimistic in hoping that she might have accidentally said something that gives even the tiniest amount of validity to an idea that I feel more people should care about.