The Next Really Big Enormous Thing
from the a-singularity-is-coming dept.
Robin Hanson gave an informal talk titled "The Next Really Big Enormous Thing", which argues that there are reasons, based on historical models to expect that the pace of change may increase soon. He seems to be trying to convince economists and social scientists to take our concept of Singularity seriously, and to start doing active research into what the effects might be. He has a paper giving some of the background and explaining the model on his home page.
He also says he's available to give the talk in other venues.
Know of any groups on the east coast that might benefit from this style of presentation?
September 22nd, 2000 at 8:11 PM
Beware! The link is to a Powerpoint presentation.
I tried to follow the link to Robin's presentation and wound up getting snookered by Netscape for Windows into a promotion for a $30 plug-in. Not cool. Anyone care to put up, say, a PDF version? Thanks.
September 22nd, 2000 at 8:13 PM
Your second link is broken (trailing double quote)
Title says it all.
September 23rd, 2000 at 10:49 PM
Correct Link
The correct Link to the paper is: http://hanson.gmu.edu/longgrow.html
September 24th, 2000 at 11:46 AM
About the premise…
Um, am I the only one who thinks that trying to fit a curve to this sort of thing is:
September 25th, 2000 at 6:38 PM
Re:About the premise…
Trying to extrapolate the curve set by past historical events to encompass the coming unprecedented revolution does seem like a bit of a stretch. If the effect is to drum up some more interest in the social consequenses of coming technologies, though, I wouldn't say the effort was wasted, would you?