Annotations, Ch 59
My take on Singularity. If you keep up with the latest developments in AI, Singularity sounds more like our future and less like a possibility. We’ll see, right? The funniest thing though-the other day I passed a man on the street carrying a sign “Singularity is Near.”
You can read about technological singularity at wikipedia (dot) org/wiki/Technological_singularity
Sifr, the Arabic word for zero. Aleph, the precursor to the first Greek letter alpha, but also the Hebrew letter which mathematicians use to denote the cardinality (size) of infinite sets. Aleph-zero is the smallest infinity in mathematics.
“∑ (parts) ≠ whole” means that the sum of the parts does not equal the whole.
“Exists a finer topology” is another mathematical reference. I won’t explain it means, but I meant it somewhat in the same sense as the statement previous. Spock is neglecting to define certain parts of himself.
Damu nzito kuliko maji-Blood is thicker than water.
I never mention this explicitly, but Spock is being hosted on the Sifr servers. Jim is being hosted on the Aleph servers.