Hey, man, have you heard? There’s this bunch of, like, crazy nerds out there, who think that some kind of unspecified huge nerd thing is going to happen. What a bunch of wackos! It’s geek religion, man.
Reading this article and the comments section really drove home how important rationality skills are when thinking about the future.
What a disheartening article. The whole thing can be summed up with a quote from Three Major Singularity Schools:
Reading this article and the comments section really drove home how important rationality skills are when thinking about the future.
Agreed. I hope you (and other LW people) contribute to the discussion to try and correct some of these misconceptions.
It is an important reminder of how strange and scary these ideas seem at first glance and the inferential distances involved.