Talk:Actuarial escape velocity

Speculative science versus science fiction
Hi, everyone. I just finished reading the actuarial escape velocity article and was put off by the idea of this being science fiction, as opposed to speculative science. If I'm correct, most science is heavily speculative because of the nature of wanting to learn and understand using collective ideas and intelligence to form a conclusion or theory, etc. If there is no speculation, there is no science or willingness to think ahead.

So, I am proposing that instead of using the "science fiction" article stub label, we should establish a "Singularity" stub label, because the idea of actuarial escape velocity and the Singularity seems plausible enough, given the correct volume of absorbed literature. There is a lot of talk about the Singularity these days, so I think this proposition is reasonable enough. Any feedback? Dylan Knight Rogers 22:36, 8 March 2007 (UTC)


 * All new stub tags and categories must be proposed and approved at WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. Generally, a minimum of 60 articles is needed to create a new stub category.  For now, science fiction seems to be the closest existing category to speculative science.  Science fiction, it could be argued, is merely the more fanciful end of speculative science. — Swpb talk contribs 23:58, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Concept created by David Gobel
This concept was created by David Gobel in July, 2003 when founding the Methuselah Foundation's prize. The prize approach was compared to the XPRIZE and refers to an exponential arc is some of the foundation's planning documents. The visual representation of the exponential and comparison with the XPRIZE inspired the concept of "escape velocity" with regards to human lifespan. Aubrey de Grey and Kurweil subsequently adopted the term. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kdewalt (talk • contribs).