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Anonymous Thu 21 May 11:25:05 2020 No.11696279 View Reply Original Report

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Are you ready for Singularity /sci/?

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Anonymous Thu 21 May 2020 11:34:12 No.11696299 Report

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Are you ready to die with none of your sci-fi dreams coming true?

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Anonymous Thu 21 May 2020 11:55:39 No.11696359 Report

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>>11696279
Idk but I just farted

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Anonymous Thu 21 May 2020 12:29:54 No.11696430 Report

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What will come first? Techno singularity or commercial nuclear fusion?

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Anonymous Thu 21 May 2020 12:35:28 No.11696444 Report

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More like ready for this senile retard to die of old age LOL

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Anonymous Thu 21 May 2020 12:56:08 No.11696490 Report

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In five more years, it will be just five more years until in five more years we can safely say that in five more ye

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Anonymous Thu 21 May 2020 13:03:46 No.11696508 Report

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>>11696279
No I'm not ready for all the rocks to be turned into computonium

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Anonymous Thu 21 May 2020 13:07:46 No.11696519 Report

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Reminder that the entire singularity concept is a cope because Kurzweil dreams of being a woman in a punk band and considers existence in a simulated reality his only way to achieve this.

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Anonymous Thu 21 May 2020 13:08:19 No.11696521 Report

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>>11696279
>Singularity University, which we discussed in Part VI of Chapter One of this book, purportedly was created to help technophiles "guide research" and "shape the advances" so that technology would "improve society." We pointed out that Singularity University served in practice to promote the interests of technology-orientated businessmen, and we expressed doubt that the majority of technophiles fully believed in the drivel about "shaping the advances" to "improve society." It does seem, however, that the techies -the subset of the technophiles that we specified at the beginning of this Part V of the present chapter-are entirely sincere in their belief that organizations like Singularity University will help them to "shape the advances" of technology and keep the technological society on the road to a utopian future. A utopian future will have to exclude the competitive processes that would deprive the techies of their thousand-year life-span. But we showed in Chapter One that the development of our society can never be subject to rational control: The techies won't be able to "shape the advances" of technology, guide the course of technological progress, or exclude the intense competition that will eliminate nearly all techies in short order.

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Anonymous Thu 21 May 2020 13:09:22 No.11696524 Report

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>In view of everything we've said up to this point, and in view moreover of the fact that the techies' vision of the future is based on pure speculation and is unsupported by evidence, one has to ask how they can believe in that vision. Some techies, e.g. , Kurzweil, do concede a slight degree of uncertainty as to whether their expectations for the future will be realized, but this seems to be no more than a sop that they throw to the skeptics, something they have to concede in order to avoid making themselves too obviously ridiculous in the eyes of rational people. Despite their pro forma admission of uncertainty, it's clear that most techies confidently expect to live for many centuries, if not forever, in a world that will be in some vaguely defined sense a utopia. Thus Kurzweil states flatly: "We will be able to live as long as we want... ." He adds no qualifiers-no "probably," no "if things turn out as expected." His whole book reveals a man intoxicated with a vision of the future in which, as an immortal machine, he will participate in the conquest of the universe. In fact, Kurzweil and other techies are living in a fantasy world.

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Anonymous Thu 21 May 2020 13:10:32 No.11696527 Report

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>The techies' belief-system can best be explained as a religious phenomenon, to which we may give the name "Technianity." It's true that Technianity at this point is not strictly speaking a religion, because it has not yet developed anything resembling a uniform body of doctrine; the techies' beliefs are widely varied. In this respect Technianity probably resembles the inceptive stages of many other religions. Nevertheless, Technianity already has the earmarks of an apocalyptic and millenarian cult: In most versions it anticipates a cataclysmic event, the Singularity, which is the point at which technological progress is supposed to become so rapid as to resemble an explosion. This is analogous to the Judgment Day of Christian mythology or the Revolution of Marxist mythology. The cataclysmic event is supposed to be followed by the arrival of techno-utopia (analogous to the Kingdom of God or the Worker's Paradise). Technianity has a favored minority-the Elect-consisting of the techies (equivalent to the True Believers of Christianity or the Proletariat of the Marxists). The Elect of Technianity, like that of Christianity, is destined to Eternal Life; though this element is missing from Marxism.

>Historically, millenarian cults have tended to emerge at "times of great social change or crisis." This suggests that the techies' beliefs reflect not a genuine confidence in technology, but rather their own anxieties about the future of the technological society-anxieties from which they try to escape by creating a quasi-religious myth.

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Anonymous Thu 21 May 2020 15:47:27 No.11696891 Report

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I love how theres 2 groups of people. One group that is certain the Singularity will happen in the next 10 years, and another thats sure it will never happen.

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Anonymous Thu 21 May 2020 16:56:23 No.11697117 Report

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Well find out in 10 years lol

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