{"id":74098,"date":"2012-09-24T23:48:19","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T07:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=18469"},"modified":"2012-09-24T23:48:19","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T07:48:19","slug":"singularity-summit-2012-be-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/24\/singularity-summit-2012-be-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Singularity Summit 2012 \u2013 be there!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/09\/cost_per_megabase1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18471\" title=\"cost_per_megabase\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/09\/cost_per_megabase1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As regular readers know I have been to two previous Singularity Summits (2008 and 2010), and will be at the 2012 event. The speakers look particularly <a href=\"http:\/\/singularitysummit.com\/program\/\">interesting to me<\/a> this year. I may finally be stupid enough to blurt out to Vernor Vinge how awesome the adolescent me thought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0812515285\/geneexpressio-20\">Fire Upon the Deep<\/a> was (I downed a beer with Vinge in 2008, but didn&#8217;t say a word to him). <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/\">Carl will<\/a> be there again, and we&#8217;ll definitely catch up in the &#8220;meat-space.&#8221; More importantly I have <em>a lot<\/em>\u00a0of socializing to do, since I haven&#8217;t seen any of my friends from the Berkeley <a href=\"http:\/\/lesswrong.com\/\">LW<\/a> community since I left the Bay Area in the summer of 2011. But I hope to meet new &amp; interesting people, as I always have at these events (the social circle overlaps a great deal with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilconference.com\/\">BIL<\/a>). So if you read this weblog and are going to the Singularity Summit and think I&#8217;m worth talking to in person just come on up, I&#8217;m not very shy. With the prior that you&#8217;re actually at the Summit my assumption is that you&#8217;re interesting, unless &#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/xfk25UhhAxI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As regular readers know I have been to two previous Singularity Summits (2008 and 2010), and will be at the 2012 event. The speakers look particularly interesting to me this year. I may finally be stupid enough to blurt out to Vernor Vinge how awesome&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,455],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administration","category-singularity-summit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74098","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=74098"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74197,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74098\/revisions\/74197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}