{"id":1724,"date":"2009-01-23T07:29:22","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T11:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=1724"},"modified":"2009-01-21T13:27:41","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T17:27:41","slug":"skeptical-of-the-singularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=1724","title":{"rendered":"Skeptical of the Singularity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Daylight Atheism site is taking a stab at a few stock SF tropes, including <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.daylightatheism.org\/2008\/07\/skeptical-of-the-singularity.html\">The Singularity<\/A> and <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.daylightatheism.org\/2009\/01\/on-cryonics.html\">Cryonics<\/A>.  Blogger Ebonmuse suggests that our assumption that they simply will happen, sooner or later, sounds a little like blind faith.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The fastest number-cruncher imaginable, if given faulty data, will produce nothing of meaningful application to the real world. And it follows that the dreamed-of Singularity machines will never exist, or at least will never be the godlike omnisciences they&#8217;re envisioned as. Even they would have to engage in the same process of slow, painstaking investigation that mere human scientists carry out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The comments on both posts are interesting as well.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?  Are these technologies inevitable, or are they SF pipe dreams?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daylight Atheism site is taking a stab at a few stock SF tropes, including The Singularity and Cryonics. Blogger Ebonmuse suggests that our assumption that they simply will happen, sooner or later, sounds a little like blind faith. The fastest number-cruncher imaginable, if given faulty data, will produce nothing of meaningful application to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1724"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1770,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions\/1770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}