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Sunday, September 17, 2017

Sunday's Walk

Low muss, low fuss this morning. Eric and I walked to our favorite greasy spoon diner for a late breakfast, then Eric got a nice haircut, and then we browsed bookstores and walked a few bucolic neighborhood blocks in the cool blue sunshine. Saw a VHS tape for a documentary on the exciting imminent nanotechnology future in a dusty discard bin in a used book shop. That was good for a laugh.

1 comment:

jimf said...

> Saw a VHS tape for a documentary on the exciting imminent nanotechnology
> future in a dusty discard bin in a used book shop. That was good for a laugh.

Hey! That ain't no laughin' matter.

(via
https://amormundi.blogspot.com/2014/08/libertopian-indifference-to-actual.html )

The day is coming!

http://www.sentientdevelopments.com/2008/06/warren-ellis-singularity-indivisible.html
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The day is coming, my friends, when Singularity denial will seem
as outrageous and irresponsible as the denial of anthropogenic
global warming. And I think the comparison is fair; environmentalists
are often chastised for their "religious-like" convictions and
concern. It's easy to mock the Chicken Littles of the world.

And like the foot-dragging on climate change, there are consequences
to inaction. The bogus and unfair memetic linkage between
millenarian beliefs and the Singularity is a dangerous one,
and the sooner this association is severed the better. . .

Posted by George [Dvorsky] at 6/03/2008
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