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[Via Nestor, posting this comment on Charlie Stross's post about The Spamularity]

My favourite response to Charlie Stross's musings about corporations as an alien life form came from Tim Maly, commenting at Snarkmarket:

Yeah, I kept reading this and thinking, "What if the Singularity already happened?" "What if our ideas about what constitutes intelligence render us incapable of recognising it when it appears?"

How do bacteria revolt against the rise of humans? They don't. They just go on, trying to survive in a new environment that's changed for various reasons that they don't quite understand. [...]

Comment of the day (in response to a discussion about The Singularity):

With apologies to DNA, "There's something big and physically binding coming at me, it needs a fancy sounding name, thermo … thermodynamics. I wonder if it wants to be friends."
posted by overyield at 10:47 AM on February 18

Avram Grumer has found firm evidence that the Singularity will be upon us sooner than you'd think.

(As someone who hasn't been clean-shaven for more than a few months at a time in the last two decades presumably I'm destined to be Left Behind after the rest of you upload yourselves into your AI-powered, nanotech-driven razors.)

[Via Majikthise, via Pharyngula]