I’m not sure Kurzweil was on SI’s Board of Directors very long,
I got the 2007-10 dates from Wikipedia on SI. It has a citation for the 2010; and I vaguely recall seeing Kurzweil on the list of board members as far back as 2007.
[SU people would] contest your claim that “SU’s activities have little to do with the Singularity,...”
Yes.
By the way, although the particular formulation is my own, I developed that opinion under the influence of certain SI people.
in Kurzweil’s meaning, the singularity is about accelerating technological change up to the point where the world is transformed
To some extent. But Kurzweil talks a lot about a point in the future where accelerating change is blindingly fast. SU does not focus on that, but rather on the current relatively slow stage of acceleration.
Anyway, as I said, there’s no sense arguing about words. The brand and the term Singularity can now be used to mean accelerating technological change in general, and it is now correct to say that SU is doing Singularity work.
CSER … still has not been funded.
Thanks, I didn’t know that. From all the noise, I thought that CSER was going strong.
SI wasn’t locating/creating enough people who are capable of thinking about the future in non-crazy ways
Part of my skepticism about the need for another recruiting path was that that I got into this in 2005 after simply stumbling upon the SIAI site—and, maybe, perhaps, at least I hope, I think I’m not crazy :-)
I had assumed that others would do like me. One of those biases. But I see now that the rationality work really did a much better job of bringing in good people.
I got the 2007-10 dates from Wikipedia on SI. It has a citation for the 2010; and I vaguely seeing Kurzweil on the list of board members as far back as 2007.
Yeah. As far as I can tell from board meeting minutes during those years, there was a miscommunication between Tyler Emerson and Ray Kurzweil, and Ray didn’t know he was on the Board during most of the time he was “on” the Board. :)
But this was all before I was around, so I don’t have first-hand information to offer.
Part of my skepticism about the need for another recruiting path was that that I got into this in 2005 after simply stumbling upon the SIAI site—and, maybe, perhaps, at least I hope, I think I’m not crazy :-)
Many useful and non-crazy people did come through the writings about AI — including Edwin Evans, Louie Helm, yourself, and many others — but not enough of them. And those who did are probably better thinkers after reading The Sequences, anyway.
I got the 2007-10 dates from Wikipedia on SI. It has a citation for the 2010; and I vaguely recall seeing Kurzweil on the list of board members as far back as 2007.
Yes.
By the way, although the particular formulation is my own, I developed that opinion under the influence of certain SI people.
To some extent. But Kurzweil talks a lot about a point in the future where accelerating change is blindingly fast. SU does not focus on that, but rather on the current relatively slow stage of acceleration.
Anyway, as I said, there’s no sense arguing about words. The brand and the term Singularity can now be used to mean accelerating technological change in general, and it is now correct to say that SU is doing Singularity work.
Thanks, I didn’t know that. From all the noise, I thought that CSER was going strong.
Part of my skepticism about the need for another recruiting path was that that I got into this in 2005 after simply stumbling upon the SIAI site—and, maybe, perhaps, at least I hope, I think I’m not crazy :-)
I had assumed that others would do like me. One of those biases. But I see now that the rationality work really did a much better job of bringing in good people.
Yeah. As far as I can tell from board meeting minutes during those years, there was a miscommunication between Tyler Emerson and Ray Kurzweil, and Ray didn’t know he was on the Board during most of the time he was “on” the Board. :)
But this was all before I was around, so I don’t have first-hand information to offer.
Many useful and non-crazy people did come through the writings about AI — including Edwin Evans, Louie Helm, yourself, and many others — but not enough of them. And those who did are probably better thinkers after reading The Sequences, anyway.
Thanks, I edited the text about Kurzweil and the board.
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