Comments on: Evaluating the Technological Singularity Concept http://richardleis.com/2009/05/04/evaluating-the-technological-singularity-concept/ Personal Website Mon, 04 May 2009 18:08:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Jef Allbright http://richardleis.com/2009/05/04/evaluating-the-technological-singularity-concept/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Jef Allbright Mon, 04 May 2009 18:08:24 +0000 http://richardleis.com/?p=96#comment-17 I would agree that an understanding and appreciation of semiosis is perhaps the most detrimental deficit of the typical transhumanist's toolbox. It's essential to an effective grasp of context and uncertainty with regard to meaning and prediction, and it's central to the relationship between syntax and semantics in artificial intelligence, but due to its apparent "softness", "vagueness", and emphasis on epistemic relations rather than ontic certainty, it is often repugnant to "hard-core rationalists." I would agree that an understanding and appreciation of semiosis is perhaps the most detrimental deficit of the typical transhumanist’s toolbox. It’s essential to an effective grasp of context and uncertainty with regard to meaning and prediction, and it’s central to the relationship between syntax and semantics in artificial intelligence, but due to its apparent “softness”, “vagueness”, and emphasis on epistemic relations rather than ontic certainty, it is often repugnant to “hard-core rationalists.”

]]> By: Chris Grayson http://richardleis.com/2009/05/04/evaluating-the-technological-singularity-concept/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Chris Grayson Mon, 04 May 2009 09:07:20 +0000 http://richardleis.com/?p=96#comment-16 Hi Richard, "I am studying, for example, the impact of mass media on education through history..." Have you read any Umberto Eco? I think you would be very intrigued by his writings on semiotics, and the mass psychology of pop-culture. Hi Richard,

“I am studying, for example, the impact of mass media on education through history…”

Have you read any Umberto Eco? I think you would be very intrigued by his writings on semiotics, and the mass psychology of pop-culture.

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