{"id":71492,"date":"2012-06-18T17:52:50","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T01:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=16903"},"modified":"2012-06-18T17:52:50","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T01:52:50","slug":"singularity-summit-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/06\/18\/singularity-summit-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Singularity Summit 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you know that I am on good terms with many people involved with the <a href=\"http:\/\/singularity.org\/\">Singularity Institute<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/lesswrong.com\/\">Less Wrong<\/a> community. This year I am going to be at the <a href=\"http:\/\/singularitysummit.com\/2012\/04\/04\/singularity-summit-2012-lineup\/\">Singularity Summit<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/singularitysummit.com\/2012\/04\/04\/singularity-summit-2012-lineup\/\">October 13th &#038; 14th<\/a> in San Francisco, after skipping the past few. I&#8217;m excited to meet up <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/\">Carl<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.overcomingbias.com\/\">Robin<\/a> again, and I really hope that I&#8217;ll finally run into <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/\">Tyler Cowen<\/a> (I had lunch with some of his GMU colleages back in 2007, but he was out of town). I&#8217;ve also confirmed with Steven Pinker that he&#8217;s most likely going to be there (no offense, but the bigger the name, the more likely that conferences are going to trumpet the presence of a speaker when their services are highly provisional).<\/p>\n<p>I understand that many readers are skeptical of Transhumanism, Singulitarianism, etc. What I would like to offer is that <b>people who are open to exploring these far out topics are often extremely intellectually engaging more generally.<\/b>  My goal in life is to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0375727140\/geneexpressio-20\">&#8220;avoid boring people&#8221;<\/a>, and I find that events like the Singularity Summit are aids to that (also, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilconference.com\/\">BIL<\/a> conferences).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you know that I am on good terms with many people involved with the Singularity Institute and the Less Wrong community. This year I am going to be at the Singularity Summit, October 13th &#038; 14th in San Francisco, after skipping the past few&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[455,141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-singularity-summit","category-transhumanism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71492"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71531,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71492\/revisions\/71531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}