What does /g/ think about the oncoming technological singularity

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The singularity is possible, and perhaps inevitable given the continued advance of mankind, but saying it's 'near' is like being someone in the 60s telling people that 'fusion is 20 years away'

>>60882745
won't happen in this century

>>60882902
What makes you say that?
The trends like power/cost or supercomputer power happening right now propose about 2050 and have held for a long time

>>60882907
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>>60882745
It's a complete farce. This is the kind of stuff that fartsniffing college philosophy professors fantasize about on the internet and nothing more. The idea that computers can somehow self improve implies that they have motivation to improve, which of course, they don't.