fourth step

Okay, I made this cool spreadsheet which helps with the fourth step. Google doesn't support new *.sxls files however so I offer it here as an excel 97-03 file. I hope you find it helpful.

fourth step

let me know if it doesn't work.

rK

god's first whim

I've been thinking about the singularity a lot and I've been meaning to pick up Kurzweil's book on the subject. What strikes me is how opaque it is; one can infer nothing past it. It's like this:

What's interesting is that Kurzweil presumes that the progress continues in the accelerating manner even after the singularity begins. We ca make no such assumptions. If we can assume "wise control" we can't presume to know what that would entail. It may be very well that our newly invented Demigod masters may unanimously find it unwise to continue towards omnipotence. God is dangerous. If God is born, the fate of the entire world depends on God's first whim.

first blog

Okay, so this is my first blog and I don't know what to write. One thing I know is that I don't want this to replace the ink and paper journal that I've been keeping since 2000. I'm too used to journalling my thoughts that way. But when I come up with something good, where is it going to go? Different audiences, I guess, will get different things...

I think blogs are pretty pretentious, by the way, it's like putting out a christmas album. You're presuming that people are, or should be, interested in what you have to say. I try to be relevant though. I'm reading all the good books: the ones on the cutting edge, and I might synthesize a relevant paradigm on this blog.

Maybe it will be better with a worldwide audience. Writing in my journal is too much like...