Oracle of ONE1 » philosophy http://dvector.com/oracle Obscure words of unity Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:25:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Fear, uncertainty, and doubt http://dvector.com/oracle/2009/09/22/fear-uncertainty-and-doubt/ http://dvector.com/oracle/2009/09/22/fear-uncertainty-and-doubt/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:39:49 +0000 one1 http://dvector.com/oracle/?p=341 “You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I’m not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don’t know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we’re here. . . .

I don’t have to know an answer. I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell. It doesn’t frighten me.”

— Richard Feynman

I think that sums it up quite well.

]]> http://dvector.com/oracle/2009/09/22/fear-uncertainty-and-doubt/feed/ 0 The Approaching Singularity http://dvector.com/oracle/2008/06/05/the-approaching-sungularity/ http://dvector.com/oracle/2008/06/05/the-approaching-sungularity/#comments Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:09:28 +0000 one1 http://dvector.com/oracle/2008/06/05/the-approaching-sungularity/ “The singularity is supposed to begin shortly after engineers build the first computer with greater-than-human intelligence. That achievement will trigger a series of cycles in which superintelligent machines beget even smarter machine progeny, going from generation to generation in weeks or days rather than decades or years. The availability of all that cheap, mass-­produced brilliance will spark explosive economic growth, an unending, hypersonic, tech­no­industrial rampage that by comparison will make the Industrial Revolution look like a bingo game.” – http://spectrum.ieee.org/jun08/6311

IEEE Online Spectrum has a special report on the Singularity. This is an idea promoted by science fiction writer and futurists. It does also contain some parts of likelihood. This is a very good series of articles that I recommend reading. http://spectrum.ieee.org/singularity.

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