The Mirage of the Financial Singularity

His company reflects that singularity of focus.

Ray Kurzweil A university for the coming singularity

Eliezer Yudkowsky, one of the founders of The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, believes that singularity will lead to an intelligence explosion as super intelligent machines design even more intelligent machines, with each generation repeating this process.

They refer to this moment as the singularity, and see it as a world changing event.

The idea of financial singularity may seem inspiring but it is no less illusory than the rational Utopia that inspired generations of central planners.

News accounts depict hordes of emotional people trading on hunch and superstition. That looks a lot more like reality than all the talk of impending financial singularity.

(c) The need to give equal treatment to all forms of racism and discrimination while recognizing the singularity and specificity of each form of discrimination and racism

Around the entire planet, we are approaching some kind of singularity, with the market pandering to our fundamental short term natures by offering us instant gratification and long term destruction.

Ray Kurzweil's latest graphs show that technology's breakneck advances will only accelerate recession or not. He unveils his new project, Singularity University, to study oncoming tech and guide it to benefit humanity.

It may be that the social singularity ahead is the one that we fear the most a convergence of catastrophes, of environmental degradation, of weapons of mass destruction, of pandemics, of poverty.

(ii) The close and fundamental link between the spiritual, historical and cultural singularity of each of these phobias and the universality of their underlying causes and of the efforts needed to combat them

The Grossman Stiglitz conundrum seems less compelling in the financial singularity if we can imagine that computers direct all the investment decisions. Although alpha may be vanishingly small, it still represents enough profit to keep the computers running.

In the Special Rapporteur's view, any study of this increase in Islamophobia should be based on both the historical, theological and contextual singularity of this phobia and the universality of the underlying causes of the defamation of religions.

Many of you will realize that I'm ripping a bit off of the science fiction writer Vernor Vinge's notion of a technological singularity, where a number of trends accelerate and converge and come together to create, really, a shockingly new reality.

Indeed, perhaps the biggest culture value challenge of all is short term thinking. Around the entire planet, we are approaching some kind of singularity, with the market pandering to our fundamental short term natures by offering us instant gratification and long term destruction.

That study and the note by the Secretariat accompanying the present draft convention state that it has so far not been possible to develop a wholly satisfactory solution to ensure this singularity or originality (A CN.9 577 Add.1, para.37).

Mr. Caprioli (France) said that he supported the United States delegation's view regarding draft paragraphs 4 and 5 and agreed with the distinction drawn between an environment in which the uniqueness of an original was important, as in the case of negotiable instruments which were not covered by the draft convention, and an environment in which singularity was not required.