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Posted on Jan 30, 2004, 5 a.m.
By Bill Freeman
From SFGate.com: Eliezer Yudkowsky gives me the Singularitarian handshake. "You take a person's hand and let go a billion years later," he says. It's Saturday night in the Yale University dorms, where dozens of transhumanists have gathered for a conference called Transvision. Even among people who look forward to life as technologically improved beings, the Singularitarians are a fringe group -- about 50 young computer-programmer types rushing toward their chosen milestone of.
From SFGate.com: Eliezer Yudkowsky gives me the Singularitarian handshake. "You take a person's hand and let go a billion years later," he says. It's Saturday night in the Yale University dorms, where dozens of transhumanists have gathered for a conference called Transvision. Even among people who look forward to life as technologically improved beings, the Singularitarians are a fringe group -- about 50 young computer-programmer types rushing toward their chosen milestone of...
Source: http://www.transhumanism.com/news_comments.php?id=1101_0_2_0_C
