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Popular Science: Faces of the Singularity Tuesday, Oct 6 2009 

singularity Michael Anissimov 7:25 am

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9 Responses to “Popular Science: Faces of the Singularity”

1. BenE says:

   October 7, 2009 at 4:00 am

   Sausage fest.

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2. Michael Anissimov says:

   October 7, 2009 at 7:24 am

   Yeah, since more women aren’t interested in the Singularity it must not matter. Move along.

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3. BenE says:

   October 8, 2009 at 10:39 pm

   What an unbelievably strange thing to infer from my comment.

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4. Michael Anissimov says:

   October 9, 2009 at 8:50 am

   Sorry, I’ve talked to like 20 reporters and other people who have implied that to me over the last few months.

   Most math and physics departments are sausage fests too, but no one points it out or insults the work of these groups just because they are mostly male. People routinely do this to the Singularity movement. I’d call it reverse sexism.

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5. BenE says:

   October 9, 2009 at 10:39 am

   No problem. That must be frustrating.

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6. Michael Anissimov says:

   October 9, 2009 at 12:01 pm

   Still, how can you look at an audience of highly intelligent people trying to understand the Singularity and just think “sausage fest”? Pretty disrespectful to be so crude about the situation, highlighting gender and ignoring everything else. I don’t understand where you’re coming from with that comment.

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7. BenE says:

   October 9, 2009 at 4:43 pm

   Ignoring everything else? Again… peculiar inferences.

   As you pointed out, I’m not the first person to notice the gender disparity. For anyone to argue that the singularity ‘doesn’t matter’ as a result would be very strange though. Were you speaking literally when you said journalists have made this claim? However, the observation itself is neither crude nor sexist. It’s interesting and noteworthy that issues related to the singularity seem to appeal far more to men than women.

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8. Michael Anissimov says:

   October 9, 2009 at 4:53 pm

   Ignoring everything else in that particular comment. Out of quadrillions of possible comments, you chose to give the one comment that highlighted the predominantly male demographics of the event. This surely suggests that you consider that a significant observation. I am objecting to the notion that it is one.

   Yes, literally. I don’t find it interesting or noteworthy, personally. I find it obvious that men are more interested in compsci/cogsci-oriented and sci-fi/futurist flavored concepts. No one marvels over this obviousness elsewhere in futurism, but they do in Singularitarianism, for some peculiar reason. Maybe Singularitarianism has gotten to the point where it overshadows all futurism, so comments otherwise directed towards futurism are directed towards Singularitarianism, but I would find that odd, given how many futurists do not identify with Singularitarianism.

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