Interesting Read: Peter Thiel's views on singularity
Just came across this article where Peter Thiel talks about lot of different topics that he is passionate about. I am also a big follower on the topic of singularity. There are couple of really good definitions on singularity and associated terms. I really enjoyed the article, you might too. http://www.reason.com/news/show/125469.html
Here is one excerpt I found intriguing.
reason: The folks at the Singularity Institute seem to argue that the rip in the fabric of history would occur with the creation of a greater-than-human intelligence. Is that right?
Thiel: There are a whole slew of versions of this. It could happen with computers. It could happen with enhanced human intelligence, where you have things that modify humans. There are aspects of the biotech revolution that could represent this. There are nanotechnological versions that could be very, very strange. There are all sorts of very bizarrely different versions of this, and it’s very hard to know which of these trends is a dominant one. Maybe they have natural limits to them. Maybe Moore’s Law [the observation in 1965 by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore that the number of transistors incorporated into integrated circuits doubles roughly every two years] breaks down. If Moore’s Law were to stop tomorrow, then I think the hopes for A.I. and computer science may be deferred by centuries. Then the biotech revolution seems to have a lot of promise, but again maybe there are some strange constraints that it runs into.
Another great one.
Every myth on this planet tells us the purpose of life is death, and I don’t think that’s true. I think the purpose of life is life
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- Akshay
