Comments on Sentient Developments: NYT: Merely Human? That’s So Yesterday

Hey Martin, I don't have any issues with Shank's ...

2010-06-25T12:40:36.762-04:00

Hey Martin,

I don't have any issues with Shank's take on SU, it's his lumping together of ExI, IEET, WTA and H+ that bothers me. Like so many other critics, Shanks refuses to distinguish between technoprogressives and the libertopian types. He paints a disturbingly simplistic picture of these organizations and the people involved.

Oh, and H+ Magazine is not defunct.

@Martin this is implying that technological/specia...

2010-06-25T00:31:18.831-04:00

@Martin this is implying that technological/specialized universities and university programs in general don't behave like that elsewhere?

BTW, this quote: Andrew Orlowski, a techie journ...

2010-06-24T22:44:03.021-04:00

BTW, this quote:

Andrew Orlowski, a techie journalist who is a long-standing critic of "utopian nonsense," says:

"The Singularity ... is rich people building a lifeboat and getting off the ship."

Is also spot on considering my criticism of Peter Thiel, one of the sugar daddies of SIAI.

Care to elaborate how the "bullshit factor" is exe...

2010-06-24T22:20:25.980-04:00

Care to elaborate how the "bullshit factor" is exemplified ("eg") in a "confusion" about ExI, WTA, and H+? All he says is that WTA *replaced* ExI, and in sheer numbers and simple crowd dynamics, it did (there is no suggestion that WTA replaced ExI in any formal sense).

I hardly see how that article is infuriating. In fact, I find the claim that Singularity University is primarily "not a university and not even about Singularity. It's a corporate networking and seminar operation, and most of the clients attending its latest course were primarily interested in 'figuring out their next business venture or where they wanted to invest'" to be spot on.