Comments on: Postsingular and The Singularity. Chu online.

By: Rudy

Rudy — Sun, 06 May 2007 00:19:47 +0000

Blog comments are showing again! Tess, that dog’s name was Slug and he “belonged” to my son. He was the best dog ever, well, maybe second only to Arf and, hmmm, Muffin. Slug was half Rottweiler and half German Shepherd. Two mean-sounding dog breeds, but he was sweet. R. I. P. Slug!

By: tess

tess — Thu, 03 May 2007 16:20:25 +0000

I know this is absolutely off-topic, but do you know what kind of dog it is you have pictured? I have a dog with the exact coloring (which is lovely but not usual), ears, snout, etc… and all we know is “german shepherd mix” was curious if you knew more.

By: rs

rs — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 08:42:24 +0000

just catching up, I really enjoyed this entry.
I’m in London, interviewing people for the big G.

By: Chinedum Richard Ofoegbu

Chinedum Richard Ofoegbu — Wed, 24 May 2006 22:13:43 +0000

Listened to the Chu and the Nants mp3 meself. And you say that’s the opener?!
Man, I have a long way to go.

By: ebnelson

ebnelson — Mon, 22 May 2006 19:51:59 +0000

It is great to see your work going so well.
I especially like that you post photos of gnarly stuff you run across.
I am loving your Lifebox, by the way.
Please do come out to Houston, and if you do, make sure your fans know about it.

By: benign

benign — Fri, 19 May 2006 00:38:26 +0000

Glad to hear things are going well for you. I just finished that snippet of Chu and the Nants and I gotta say, I’m pretty jazzed about postsingular at this point. Keep up the good work!
Slightly related, I was just thinking today about how you and Hofstadter would make a good team, and though it’s not quite that, here he is in your blog! Weird coincidence no?

By: Steve H

Steve H — Wed, 17 May 2006 21:59:24 +0000

Must be nice. My alarm goes off at 6:15.
Stay in the zone and don’t let Kurzweil get your goat, or pig in this case. You’re right, though, there are worse things than being dead. Fearing it throughout your life is counterproductive. Vitamins, minerals, nanomachines: for all we know the sun is going to go nova tomorrow or another Dinosaur Killer’s on the way. I’d like to live forever, if I could be happy; but eternal life as a uranium miner on Uranus wouldn’t even be second prize.
Reverse causation? I love it. My writing tends to be like growing crystals - I dump a bunch of barely-connected fragments into a supersaturated solution of background ideas, and they very slowly grow towards each other. When I come back and check it, there’s been growth (like that stack of plates in your head).
I’m reading Vinge’s RAINBOW’S END right now - nearly to the end - very much on the same page with you about meta-art. His belief-circle ‘war’ is a great idea, easily possible in your POSTSINGULAR world.
Anyway, what I came to say is that it’s good you don’t suffer for your art. I ran across an old Peter Townshend interview where he was saying Steve Marriot was killing himself with lifestyle, but cranking out good music. Marriot has to suffer, he said, because I want his music. Too bad, but that’s life. Your lifestyle seems to be injecting you with life-giving nanomachines instead!