Singularity Hub Posts About the Summit 2010 Monday, Jun 28 2010
SIAI and singularity 7:45 pm
Singularity Hub, one of the best websites on the Internet for tech news (along with Next Big Future and KurzweilAI news) has posted a reminder on the upcoming Singularity Summit in San Francisco, and a promise that they will provide excellent coverage.
Register before July 1st, before the price goes up another $100! We also have a special block of discounted rooms at the Hyatt available — $130/night instead of the usual $200.
Sorry the Summit is $485 and will be $585 and then $685. We fly all the speakers out and cover all their expenses, there are twenty speakers, do the math. Profits from the Summit go to the Singularity Institute for our year-round operations and Visiting Fellows program, which provides us with a community of writers, speakers, and researchers to continue our Singularity effort until it is successful.
If you want to organize a cheaper annual event related to the Singularity, feel free to do so. We hold a workshop after the event for academics, so we get to tack on another event to maximize value and productivity for those who investigate the Singularity as part of their profession. I’m sure there will be plenty of informal “workshops” on the Saturday and Sunday after the talks in local bars and restaurants, in any case.
Remember — the Singularity is the most important issue facing humanity right now. If we don’t do what we can to ensure that it goes well for humanity, no one else will. We have a limited amount of time until the technological barriers between us and the Singularity collapse, and then intervention will be difficult if not impossible.
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Thanks. I have no idea how to fix it besides upgrading WordPress, so wish me luck. :)
I upgraded WordPress, changed passwords, and the server company removed the malicious scripts. Sorry I got 0wn3d so hard. ;)
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On to a morst important issue.
How can i help? [lowercase was used for emphasis...] I am just a [hemi-]semi-demi-smart high school rising junior. It looks like I will have to
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Hey, ‘mov, how, if there is any way, can i help? [lowercase was used for emphasis...] I am just a semi-demi-smart high school rising junior. I suppose I am justified in supposing I am much less smart than you at your age at the time, and many other people here in the community. I don’t even know how You are talking about just an ordinary stereotypical Asian male, nerdy-looking but ironically not very smart, is very so ially awkward, and bad writer. It looks like I will have to wait until later this decade for a job with a merely decent income, and who knows how closer we will be to AI risks during the next 6 to 10 years?
Allow me to note the apparent underrepresentation of outspoken Asians in this movement. I know that this is not about race, and we don’t care what race the person with the idea is from. But isn’t it strange that the percentage of Asians within Singularitarianism seems to be even lower than %age of Asians in the general population, let alone the Asian %age in STEM?
With regard to the current research SIAI should take, I think there needs to be some research on social, economic, ideological, and religious factors that may affect the future. To take an extremely far-fetched example: I used to be in the “accomodationist” Protestant Christian camp so I worry how dangerous they may become; once the Evangelicals accept the science behind the technology, we hope that they will just vanish. But there may be a small possibility of them forging a techno-theocracy if they accept the science and try to create a world that their God wants. Should they display any signs of wanting to do this I will alert everyone in this community. If this scenario is very far-fetched, it may just mean I need SIAI to do more research to do. I apologize, I am not even sure if I have read enough information on this subject.
Actually, as for the (theistic-evolutionist, Biblical accomodationist and other more liberal Evangelical views) Christian apologists and evangelical Christian scientists like Franics Collins, leave them alone, just let the events unfold and take them by surprise, unless they agitate us first. That is the safest way.
Of course I know that I should do my best in school (I’m neither Yudkowsky or you), but what else can I do without waiting to earning money so that I can donate? My fundamentalist Presbyterian Mom will probably freak out [but that's not what should worry about;] and take away my freedom if she finds out what I am planning, and I have no friends to tell.
educate me.
Remerciment, bravo et respect.