I've experienced that kind of total silence on mount Teide on Tenerife. I remember realizing how unusual it is for a place outside to be completely quiet... No birds, no insects, and there was also nothing that could rustle in a breeze or something, just rocks.
I shouldn't have used the word adept (I've just looked it up, and it isn't what I meant); I simply meant someone who thinks that the Singularity will happen.
I agree with your analysis that it will probably be impossible to control the superhuman intelligence once it is out in the open. That's why I think that the Singularity might become one of our biggest problems, instead of solving some of our current ones...
I have no idea how many Singularity adepts (and I consider myself one) believe that the Singularity will solve our problems. But the fact that the current technological evolution will lead to superhuman intelligence in the forseeable future, seems completely unavoidable to me. Only, I don't think it will solve a lot of our problems, it might very well become one of our biggest problems, if we don't carefully keep it under control.
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The twin prime conjecture is independent of the base, so the base doesn't matter for it to be true or false.
I've experienced that kind of total silence on mount Teide on Tenerife. I remember realizing how unusual it is for a place outside to be completely quiet... No birds, no insects, and there was also nothing that could rustle in a breeze or something, just rocks.
You really don't get it, do you? And you tell other people that they're not familiar enough with how proofs by contradiction work...
Very well put. I wish I had mod points...
Wasn't that a gammy leg?
Have you tried using google.de instead of google.com? I expect google.de would give priority to German shops, especially if you search in German.
If your numeric system is "base pi", shouldn't that be "1" then?
Oh, I see... You assume that a republic is always a country! Well, this is simply not true.
I'm sorry, but I completely fail to understand what you mean by this... Please explain!
No it's not; Ukraine is not a republic of Russia, it's a separate country. Ya know, like Canada.
I shouldn't have used the word adept (I've just looked it up, and it isn't what I meant); I simply meant someone who thinks that the Singularity will happen. I agree with your analysis that it will probably be impossible to control the superhuman intelligence once it is out in the open. That's why I think that the Singularity might become one of our biggest problems, instead of solving some of our current ones...
I have no idea how many Singularity adepts (and I consider myself one) believe that the Singularity will solve our problems. But the fact that the current technological evolution will lead to superhuman intelligence in the forseeable future, seems completely unavoidable to me. Only, I don't think it will solve a lot of our problems, it might very well become one of our biggest problems, if we don't carefully keep it under control.