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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div><br /> ==Heading==<br /> ===lower heading===<br /> *list<br /> *list<br /> **nested list<br /> <br /> Vernor Winge's predications about the human era<br /> <br /> *All starts with me. Neurons fire at 150 m/sec at freq of 200 Hz<br /> <br /> This is much lower than the potential light speed. a 2 and 10 million fold increase, respectively<br /> <br /> two options:<br /> *improve humans<br /> *replace humans<br /> <br /> If we improved Seth 1.0 into Seth 2.0, then 2.0 can make 3.0 faster. This leads to exponential growth. So once it happens, it will happen very quickly.<br /> <br /> 1 millionfold increase==<br /> *1 subjective year in 31 seconds<br /> <br /> Already accelerating progress is observable and has been measured. Knowledge buils more knowledge<br /> <br /> Logarithm plot of paradigm shifts Time Before Present vs. Time to Next Event, bothin years, are linear when graphed log log. Innovations become more and more frequent<br /> <br /> ===Ray Kurzweil: Genius===<br /> *1965: invented classical music analyzing and compusing computer at 17<br /> *1978: OCR<br /> *1984: instrument quality sound recording<br /> *1987: invented speech recognition<br /> *Pops 150 pills a day<br /> *plans to resurrect his father<br /> *except cumpouter superiority by 2029<br /> *on lots of boards of directors of foundations for rich people worried about he singularity<br /> <br /> ===6 Epochs===<br /> #physics and chemistry<br /> #biology<br /> #brains<br /> #technology<br /> #merger of technology and human intelligence (where we are right now)<br /> #The Universe Wakes UP<br /> <br /> ===What wil it mean?===<br /> *lots of questions. Arguably not knowable<br /> <br /> &quot;Arthur C Clarke, Any sufficentyly advanced tech is indistinguishable from magic&quot;</div>

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