Comment by Roland3 on Three Dialogues on Identity · 2008-04-21T06:54:40.000Z · LW · GW

Spelling error?

Late one night, the shaman calls you to his test.

Do you mean "tent"?

Comment by Roland3 on Zombies: The Movie · 2008-04-20T07:55:22.000Z · LW · GW

Eliezer, could you please define epiphenomenal?

Comment by Roland3 on Conjuring An Evolution To Serve You · 2007-11-19T17:44:14.000Z · LW · GW

3.85 billion years of natural selection produced molecular nanotechnology (cells) and Artificial General Intelligence (brains), which even we humans aren't going to get for a few more decades.

Does that mean that the singularity is at least a few decades away?