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On 7/8/2024 4:14 PM, D wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 8 Jul 2024, Don wrote:
> 
>> D wrote:
>>> Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>>> I liked it when I read it at age 14.  It was mostly filled with long
>>>> digressions about the nature of life, which I found interesting 
>>>> although
>>>> I might find them less novel today.  And it was not a large book.
>>>> --scott
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hmm, maybe I will read it again. It was more than 20 years ago that I 
>>> read
>>> it so it would be interesting to see how it has aged. Given all the
>>> AI-hysteria I think it fits nicely with the spirit of the times. ;)
>>
>>    poets are the "unacknowledged legislators of the world."
>>      - Mary Shelley's husband Percy.
>>
>> Hyperbolized hysteria's in the heart of the beholder.
>>
>> Transhumanist Ray Kurzweil seems smitten with Singularity in a style
>> somewhat similar to _Rapture of the Nerds_ (Doctorow & Stross).
>>
>>    Though Dr. Hinton is impressed with Mr. Kurzweil's prediction
>>    that machines will become smarter than humans by the end of
>>    the decade, he is less taken with the idea that the inventor
>>    and futurist will live forever.
>>
>> <https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/technology/ray-kurzweil-singularity.html>
>>
>> The _Washington Post_ has been joined at the hip with her sister paper,
>> the NYT, ever since the publication of the Pentagon Papers. They have a
>> gentlemen's (or lady's if you like) agreement to coordinate front pages
>> with each other.
>>    Anyhow, the NYT's sister sneaks in a small snark about Kurzweil's
>> IQ:
>>
>>    Perhaps the shape rotators [such as Kurzweil] are convinced
>>    that computers can outthink us because their own minds are
>>    so impoverished.
>>
>> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/06/26/singularity-nearer-ray-kurzweil-review/>
>>
>> Then there's this guy, who's mad as hell and isn't going to take it
>> any more:
>>
>> <https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/>
>>
>> Danke,
>>
>>
> 
> Rapture of the nerds. I like that! I will steal it! =)

You might want to have a chat with Cory Doctorow....

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=rapture+of+the+nerds

pt