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Mike Wesch

Black Cloud: Air is a Finite Resource - 1 views

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arg simulation teaching

shared by Mike Wesch on 20 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Mike Wesch on 20 Jul 09
     
    teaching transformation rather than information
Mike Wesch

The Law of Accelerating Returns - 0 views

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shared by Mike Wesch on 08 May 08 - Cached
  • Can the pace of technological progress continue to speed up indefinitely? Is there not a point where humans are unable to think fast enough to keep up with it? With regard to unenhanced humans, clearly so. But what would a thousand scientists, each a thousand times more intelligent than human scientists today, and each operating a thousand times faster than contemporary humans (because the information processing in their primarily nonbiological brains is faster) accomplish? One year would be like a millennium. What would they come up with?
  • Downloading the Human Brain
  • This, then, is the Singularity. The Singularity is technological change so rapid and so profound that it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history.
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  • Needless to say, the Singularity will transform all aspects of our lives, social, sexual, and economic,
  • Some prominent dates from this analysis include the following: We achieve one Human Brain capability (2 * 10^16 cps) for $1,000 around the year 2023. We achieve one Human Brain capability (2 * 10^16 cps) for one cent around the year 2037. We achieve one Human Race capability (2 * 10^26 cps) for $1,000 around the year 2049. We achieve one Human Race capability (2 * 10^26 cps) for one cent around the year 2059.
  • Well, for one thing, they would come up with technology to become even more intelligent (because their intelligence is no longer of fixed capacity).
  • A Thought Experiment
  • By 2030, going to a web site will mean entering a full immersion virtual reality environment.
  • Brain implants based on massively distributed intelligent nanobots will ultimately expand our memories a trillion fold, and otherwise vastly improve all of our sensory, pattern recognition, and cognitive abilities.
  • And in the same way that biological self-replication gone awry (i.e., cancer) results in biological destruction, a defect in the mechanism curtailing nanobot self-replication would endanger all physical entities, biological or otherwise.
  • A related question is "is death desirable?"
  • Plan to Stick Around
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