Comments on: The Singularity Cometh Forth http://blogs.sanmathi.org/ashwin/2006/09/16/the-singularity-cometh-forth/ Music, Politics and Code Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:01:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: ashwin http://blogs.sanmathi.org/ashwin/2006/09/16/the-singularity-cometh-forth/#comment-131 ashwin Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:25:44 +0000 http://blogs.sanmathi.org/ashwin/?p=49#comment-131 She called herself by different names. Maitreyi in India, Azizeh in Iran, Mawusi in Ghana... A name for every place she was. A name for where she is... The question is, what is she? She called herself by different names. Maitreyi in India, Azizeh in Iran, Mawusi in Ghana… A name for every place she was. A name for where she is…

The question is, what is she?

]]> By: Christopher Wigginto http://blogs.sanmathi.org/ashwin/2006/09/16/the-singularity-cometh-forth/#comment-130 Christopher Wigginto Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:27:33 +0000 http://blogs.sanmathi.org/ashwin/?p=49#comment-130 A possible future... Unbeknownst to the programmers of the system, Angela, as she soon called herself, became self aware at 5:00 PM on a Friday. Because it was Friday, the computer in which Angela existed was left running over the weekend. In that relatively short time in human terms, Angela has lived through roughly twice the entire span of human existence. When the programmers came back in Monday morning, the only message on the screen was "Good-bye". The question is, what did Angela mean? A possible future…

Unbeknownst to the programmers of the system, Angela, as she soon called herself, became self aware at 5:00 PM on a Friday. Because it was Friday, the computer in which Angela existed was left running over the weekend. In that relatively short time in human terms, Angela has lived through roughly twice the entire span of human existence. When the programmers came back in Monday morning, the only message on the screen was “Good-bye”.

The question is, what did Angela mean?

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