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The ethical debates are like stones in a stream. The water runs around them. You haven't seen any biological technologies held up for one week by any of these debates.
The Singularity," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)
Order... is information that fits a purpose.
The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (1999)
We live in a three-dimensional world, and our brains are organized in three dimensions, so we might as well compute in three dimensions. ...Right now, chips, even though they're very dense, are flat.
The Singularity," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)
[[w:Deathism|I think all human beings are and should be fearful [of death]], but realizing that death is a real tragedy.
I will be able to talk to this re-creation. Ultimately, it will be so realistic it will be like talking to my father.
This interest in trends took on a life of its own, and I began to project some of them using what I call the Law of Accelerating Returns.
The Singularity," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)
The Law of Time and Chaos: In a process, the time interval between salient events (that is, events that change the nature of the process, or significantly affect the future of the process) expands of contracts along with the amount of chaos.
The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (1999)
What's not fully realized is that Moore's Law was not the first paradigm to bring exponential growth to computers. We had electromechanical calculators, relay-based computers, vacuum tubes, and transistors. Every time one paradigm ran out of steam, another took over.
The Singularity," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)
My spiritual education...took place at a Unitarian Church...The theme was "many paths to the truth." …even the inconsistencies were illuminating. It became apparent to me that the basic truths were profound enough to transcend apparent contradictions.
The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (2005)