1991
Selekoa’s 11 records dated 1991, in date order, grouped by topic.
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Ideas & lineages 11 records
Dated to 1991 only
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The 1991 Extropy glossary defines singularity as a future point or period in which self-directed evolution accelerates through nanotechnology, neuroscience and AI, beyond which events cannot be reliably foreseen. Evidence ↗· publication · dated to the year
The 1991 Extropy glossary describes the singularity as enormous acceleration beyond which events cannot be foreseen. Evidence ↗· publication · dated to the year
The Extropy glossary of Winter 1991/92 defines a singularitarian as someone who advocates the idea that technological progress will produce a singularity in human history. Evidence ↗
October 1991
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“How Computers Have Changed the Wage Structure: Evidence from Microdata, 1984-89” (1991-10) credits Alan B. Krueger as its author. Evidence ↗· publication · dated to the month
Krueger, “How Computers Have Changed the Wage Structure: Evidence from Microdata, 1984-89” (1991-10) articulates M01. The conclusion places the computer premium inside the skill-biased technological change explanation of 1980s wage-structure changes, against the competing trade explanation. Evidence ↗Krueger, How Computers Have Changed the Wage Structure (1991) →Claim page →
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Krueger, “How Computers Have Changed the Wage Structure: Evidence from Microdata, 1984-89” (1991-10) bears on M01. Krueger frames computers as a measurable workplace technology and estimates a wage premium for computer users from CPS and High School and Beyond microdata. Evidence ↗Krueger, How Computers Have Changed the Wage Structure (1991) →Claim page →
November 1991
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The mailing-list message “Re: Cheating on the Turing Test” (1991-11-20) is sent under the name Mark Rosenfelder. Evidence ↗· publication · dated to the day
Rosenfelder’s 1991 message proposes conversational tricks a program could use to seem more capable to a tester. Evidence ↗Rosenfelder, Re: Cheating on the Turing Test (1991) →Claim page →
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Rosenfelder’s 1991 message says the Turing test has always seemed too easy to its author, because humans are so easy to fool. Evidence ↗Rosenfelder, Re: Cheating on the Turing Test (1991) →Claim page →
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Rosenfelder’s 1991 message proposes ways a program could cheat the Turing test: rephrase and agree with the tester, change the subject when it cannot analyse an input, and ask flattering questions. Evidence ↗Rosenfelder, Re: Cheating on the Turing Test (1991) →Claim page →
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Gudeman’s 1991 message argues that a program’s success in the Turing test depends on the persona and the testers, and that no point in that continuum of results shows awareness in the sense that a human is aware. Evidence ↗