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2963177 No.2963177 [Reply] [Original]

What majors/fields would bring us closer to the Singularity?

I'll start

Computer programming
Electrical engineering
Neuroscience
Biology, specifically molecular biology and biotechnology
Materials science

>> No.2963192

Chemical engineering, although I guess that falls under material science.

>> No.2963203

>>2963177
Theology

>> No.2963206

English literature

>> No.2963231

I would say bio stuff would contribute the most, nothing we do will really matter until we stop dying.

>> No.2963235

>>2963203
/thread

>Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic

>> No.2963236

colonialinism

>> No.2963258

>>2963235
truth

we know the behaviour of elementary particles and forces (photons, electrons, gravity) but we don't know the why.

same with magic.

>> No.2963267

>>2963258
don't forget magnets

>> No.2963300

>>2963258
>>2963235
the converse is true as well

>>any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.

>> No.2963296

Anything math or science related.

>> No.2963334

>>2963300
And a corrallary

>any sufficiently detailed belief without evidence is indistinguishable from a religion.

>> No.2963344

Quantum computing...ftw

>> No.2963354

Advanced neckbeardology and qauntum basement dwelling.

>> No.2963357

The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.

>> No.2963451

>>2963357
I can do that too:
http://apps.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/scicache/703/scimakelatex.37079.Anonymous.html

Recent advances in encrypted configurations and metamorphic modalities are usually at odds with the memory bus. Given the current status of encrypted technology, leading analysts clearly desire the improvement of extreme programming. In order to solve this issue, we use semantic configurations to validate that the acclaimed flexible algorithm for the construction of the Turing machine by Brown and Anderson [1] runs in Θ(n) time.

>> No.2963475

ITT: No reasons behind each choice, trolls, and associated /sci/ folks.

>> No.2963487

>>2963475
We're just following OP's lead.

And plenty of reason:
>>2963235
>>2963258
>>2963300
>>2963334

>> No.2963502

>>2963487

I'm happy as long as they don't mix crazy religious singularitarianism with glorious transhumanism.

>> No.2963533

Science is good but it won't save us without some old fashioned revolution.