singularitarians

The third and smallest government, known as Emergent Terra, is a group of radical “singularitarians,” who favor abandoning traditional bans on nanotechnological improvement and genetic engineering of humans in order to ‘ascend.’

Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » JM’s Review Forum 2009

According to Grossman and other singularitarians, immortality will arrive in stages.

Futurist Ray Kurzweil Pulls Out All the Stops (and Pills) to Live to Witness the Singularity « Isegoria 2008

The doctor charges $6,000 per appointment, and wealthy singularitarians from all over the world visit him to plan their leap into the future.

Futurist Ray Kurzweil Pulls Out All the Stops (and Pills) to Live to Witness the Singularity « Isegoria 2008

I think that any kind of discussion that tries to predict who will "be in power" 70 years from now cannot be had by singularitarians.

The Speculist: The Dyson Sphere of Influence 2006

Radical transhumanists, singularitarians, and other technophilic transcendentalists are sometimes heard to say things like, "Soon we'll see the end of politics."

Ethical Technology 2010

Some singularitarians believe our world will become a techno-utopia, with humans uploading their consciousnesses into machines to live a disembodied, after-death life.

COSMOS magazine - The science of everything 2009

Perhaps the best known of the people proselytising for this singularity - let's call them singularitarians - are acolytes of Raymond Kurzweil, author of

COSMOS magazine - The science of everything 2009

Similar to the way that our Jamais Cascio has criticized the chain of unsupportable assertions that can lead singularitarians to assume that A must lead to B which must result in C-when it ain't necessarily so-Pigliucci takes on the

Ethical Technology 2009

But consensus science will never spit out the ponies the singularitarians are actually looking for, the aspirations that actually make singularitarians singularitarians -- the superintelligent post-biological Robot God, the mind uploading that immortalizes you into cyberspace, and so on.

amor mundi 2009

First, I'll just set aside the preposterous claim that superlative outcomes like superintelligence, superlongevity, and superabundance seem "obviously plausible" outside of the highly marginal Robot Cult clubhouse in which singularitarians are spending too much of their time to the exclusion of contact with the world.

amor mundi 2009