[kj] TIME Magazine on The Singularity

[Brendan]

You obviously haven't seen the iProd 2.0


>> ...willing robot sex slaves

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> You can keep the robots, and I'll settle for the human sex slaves. Analog

> sex fer sure. Better then digital sex.

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> From: Brendan <bq at soundgardener.co.nz>

> To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)

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> Subject: Re: [kj] TIME Magazine on The Singularity

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> "how do we know we aren't already immortal"

>

> That isn't an argument - the onus is on the one making extraordinary

> claims to supply extraordinary evidence. Which as far as evidence for an

> immortal soul, adds up to zero. (But centuries of oppression from

> religious loon-jobs supposedly acting on instructions from higher powers -

> who happen to be permanently invisible and insane)

>

> Religious miracles / visitations / out of body experiences / magic /

> prophecy / UFOs - have you ever noticed how the strongest 'evidence'

> behind most of that stuff is anecdotal reports from unreliable witnesses?

> Fuzzy single shot pictures? Coincidence that 'aliens' tend to be humanoid

> in shape? We've got millions to billions of people now wandering around

> with camera phones...orders or magnitude more than the 50s / 60s / 70s /

> 80s - has the incidence of UFO / supernatural footage gone up to the same

> extent?

>

> "whats wrong with living and dying?"

>

> Dying.

>

> "what good can come from egocentric megalomaniacs dominating more of the

> future?"

>

> Cyborg pectoral implants & willing robot sex slaves

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>> bah, dont like that guy, or rather, his outlook.

>> how do we know we aren't already immortal?

>> whats wrong with living and dying?

>> what good can come from egocentric megalomaniacs dominating *more* of

>> the

>> future?

>>

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>> "due to a lack of trained trumpeters, the end of the world has been

>> postponed indefinitely..."

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>>

>> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Frank Coleman <fbc at 21ca.com> wrote:

>>

>>> Anyone catch this?

>>>

>>>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2048138,00.html?xid=feed-yahoo-full-mostpopular

>>>r

>>>

>>> Well worth reading.

>>>

>>> best,

>>> FBC

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