Tag: singularity
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Too Late for the Singularity
There’s a story about an old man who was forced to accept what was then common in his society, enhanced intelligence. He’d lived a long, full life, was married and had children, but was aware he was near his end, and he was fine with that. As life slowly left him, the knowledge of the…
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Uplifting Our Pets
Bear with me, and consider this scene provided to us by J.R.R. Tolkien: “Beorn said something to [the dogs] in a queer language like animal noises turned into talk. They went out again and soon came back carrying torches in their mouths, which they lit at the fire and stuck in low brackets on…