This entry is to let people comment on my Vernor Vinge web page. Singularity stuff is fair game too, until I post some entries for that.
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Date: 2006-08-13 18:19 (UTC)From: (Anonymous)automatic evolution
Date: 2006-08-18 18:21 (UTC)From: (Anonymous)If a program creates many different versions with minor changes in code then the most popular versions can be propagated. The less popular versions can transfer users to the more popular versions. Since some users will be other programs this process could accelerate.
This is the essence of evolution. It does not require intelligence, but it leads to accelerating improvement without prerequisite of a seed AI.
Re: automatic evolution
Date: 2008-10-01 05:31 (UTC)From: (Anonymous)He's insane in the membrane.
Date: 2008-10-01 05:30 (UTC)From: (Anonymous)This is so stupid I don't know where to begin. Do I talk about the fact that consicousness is a spectrum built on a base of awareness and ability to contain/examine thought and that our conscious experience is dictated entirely by our 5 senses? I could elaborate much more, but why waste my time.
He also seems to be entirely confused by the difference between ready access to knowledge vs intelligence. Just because my brain can be plugged directly into the library of congress and I can access any information in the entire library in a nanosecond, that does not in any way imply that I can comprehend what I am accessing. I'll give you a book on high-level quantum mechanics, and you explain it to me in terms a child could understand. You couldn't... just because you can read it, doesn't mean you understand it, and a computer will in no way make you more intelligent. I think the internet has proven that. You're not more intelligent by access to the internet, you're merely filled with more meaningless content.
Anyway, this is a fan site, so my message won't be posted in any case. I just thought I'd let the moderator of this site have a tiny little quantum-sized sliver of my knowledge to realize that (1) they are stupid for worshipping this guy, and (2), this guy is a friggin moron.
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Date: 2009-07-15 13:58 (UTC)From: (Anonymous)A Minor Review of "Rainbows End"
Date: 2009-07-30 02:46 (UTC)From: (Anonymous)One of my favorite books...
Date: 2009-10-22 04:32 (UTC)From: (Anonymous)Smart Dust
Date: 2010-05-03 19:11 (UTC)From: (Anonymous)http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/05/03/smart.dust.sensors/index.html?hpt=C2