{"id":30519,"date":"2017-03-05T11:46:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T16:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=30519"},"modified":"2017-03-05T11:46:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T16:46:55","slug":"todays-quote-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/todays-quote-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Today’s quote"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Walker<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Another chapter argues we\u2019re already living through a \u201csoft singularity\u201d mediated by the Internet and ubiquitous computing and communication devices. Humans with access to these technologies think and work in ways they could have hardly imagined even five years ago. When I\u2019m putting together one of these posts, it\u2019s not unusual that I\u2019ll have as many as thirty browser tabs open in four or more windows for online resources which didn\u2019t exist or were a major project to find when I joined Ricochet in 2010, and were science fiction in 1990. Our tools are changing us already, and maybe faster than many appreciate. We are in some ways, intellectually more than human as defined even ten years ago when we use them. What if the singularity happened and nobody noticed?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bonus quote<\/a><\/p>\n

I have been writing since 2006<\/a> that it is more likely than not that we\u2019re living in a simulation. This is a hypothesis we may be able to test: it\u2019s unlikely any simulation will be perfect, and by precision investigation of physics we may be able to discover round-off errors and shortcuts in the simulation which aren\u2019t apparent at first glance. Indeed, there are a number of nagging little discrepancies<\/a> in physics and astronomy which are precisely the kinds of things we\u2019d expect to see if living in a simulation implemented with the attention to detail we\u2019ve come to expect from Microsoft. No red pill required, just Redmond slapdash quality!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Walker: Another chapter argues we\u2019re already living through a \u201csoft singularity\u201d mediated by the Internet and ubiquitous computing and communication devices. Humans with access to these technologies think and work in ways they could have hardly imagined even five years ago. When I\u2019m putting together one of these posts, it\u2019s not unusual that I\u2019ll … Continue reading “Today’s quote”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sf-and-beyond"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-7Wf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30520,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30519\/revisions\/30520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}