Comments on: Postsingularity Comments

By: juliet wright

juliet wright — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:26:17 +0000

Hi Rudy, I’m on a little trip of nostalgia - grew up in Grand Turk, remember Embry, Noreen, Finbar and Ann. Made contact ten years ago after Shefra came into my shop in Southampton to introduce herself. Your daughter? Anyway, fascinating looking at various blogs, websites etc. I will visit again one day!

By: Mad Claw Lair, Prop.

Mad Claw Lair, Prop. — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 06:45:38 +0000

I couldn’t understand some parts of this article My first credit card!, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.

By: fioricet cod

fioricet cod — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 11:44:02 +0000

fioricet cod…

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By: iridescent cuttlefish

iridescent cuttlefish — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:30:04 +0000

The great part of imagineering is that you’re freed from the all-too familiar constraints of nowness. I’ve been part of a strange little network of imagineers who have been sort of skirting the issue of how to get there, either assuming that the singularity was as inevitable and ultimately irrepressible as the impulse toward complexification itself. This may well be the case, but it’s also an unsatisfactory condition in which to operate, trusting as it does in the timeless “good things come to him that waits,” especially since the old constrictive structure seems so bent on maintaining its life-defying status quo.
It’s doubly dissatisfactory, verging on the demoralizingly frustrating when you learn that so many free-wheeling, imaginative solutions are already at hand. If you start, for example, by looking at the plethora of alternative architecture models out there which could quite literally change the way we live, think, and interact, the blood begins to boil with the impatience of eternally denied youth.
For refuge, for solace, for the recharging of one’s speculative batteries, no pursuit quite matches a synapse-singeing read in Ruckerland; a private, indwelling limpware experiment, as I see it. But this then only makes you hunger for the capacity to build some stuff right now…not when eventuality finally coalesces into actuality. Prescriptions?

By: MB

MB — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 03:15:02 +0000

What is self awareness post singularity? Elective? Is there a descent? What about dreaded simul-selfs?
I’m not big sci-fi, so sorry if this ground has been covered

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 21:13:30 +0000

AIs would be extremely good psychotherapists, they could map our personalities by real time brain scan and gently lead us towards greater wholeness and fulfilment. it reminds me of a poem I found:
t is grinding against the hypersensitive tissue of mind
it is knowing beyond ordinary knowledge
it is a conversation with a superior intelligence
it is letting go into the transcendent future
it is possibilities for visuals beyond rapture
by moving a lever i activate the great machine
an artificial intelligence shows me favourite 11-D patterns
i get extra shakespeare plays no one else knows about
The infinite comes and makes me its special friend
I ingest tracers that explain all human biochemistry
I am honoured by immense thoughts
I thank the godless emptiness from my heart
No need for spirits - i will be enlightened my own way
surfing the revealed. speeding along my possible path.

By: benign

benign — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:49:06 +0000

I’m with COOP, this dialog is really interesting.
I also really like COOP’s idea of people scripting themselves extensions and passing them around.
Building on greg r’s idea of recording dreams or viewing other people’s dreams, what if you were doing this in your sleep? Could you stumble into someone elses’ dream since you’re both connected to the orphidnet? There could even be a dreamworld running parallel to the real world. Just tell your orphids to connect you when you fall asleep, and ‘wake up’ in the dream world.
One other thing I was wondering about. Rudy, you described awareness as enhanced by the orphids as an ND hypersphere. What I’m wondering is, how much control over that do the orphids have? I mean, they can access your brain… Can they collapse your awareness to nothing?
If your awareness vanishes, I guess you’re dead, or at best in storage. If orphids can do this to people, powerful beings in the net could disappear people by killing them and making them invisible to everyone else, maybe even erasing other people’s memories of them. This actually kinda ties in with the idea of zombification. If they collapse your awareness but leave your body and brain intact, they could do whatever they wanted with what’s left of you.

By: gamma

gamma — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 21:12:41 +0000

what if the orphids were colorblind & were lost & they had to teach dogz 2 go Mt.Kilimanjaro 2 finger the magickal pig (the swine) because it was previouly programmed thus….,
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By: greg r

greg r — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 01:13:28 +0000

Well, Rodney might not want this. But, I want the orphids to record my dreams and play em back later. And I definitely wanna see some other peoples dreams (just not rodneys).
Can you fight back with pain? Give yourself an intentional migraine to get away with pulling crap? peace

By: COOP

COOP — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 04:24:16 +0000

Seeing your responses to our comments-that’s VERY cool. Maybe this really is a new way to write a novel!
Nolly’s idea is neat, but to add even further-I think that some clever people would figure out how to use the sensory input of the orphidnet in completely new ways unrelated to our unassisted senses.
If you’re blind, why use the orphidnet to “see” when you could “touch” everything in a fifty-foot radius, like a tactile sonar?
Lots of clever geeks would be hacking together code to do stuff like, say, monitor another person’s pulse, breathing, etc. and translate that info into music, like a singing lie detector. These kind of clever little hacks would quickly get passed around, and just as quickly go away (unless they provided real functionality beyond mere novelty.)