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Technological Singulatarianism 2017-07-24 05:44:24 Post No. 3133982
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I've seen this (religion) get a lot of flaq on it's related boards but since a faith falls under humanities I would like to discuss it. It's an interesting case study of a hard materialist religion.
It's also a faith that puts itself out to be completely btfo since it relies on material sciences. What do you guys think of it and the developments required?
I think only a handful of nations will ever build General AI and out of them, only Japan would implement the relevant technologies for their general public. The United States cannot implement social services efficiently enough to even maintain suitable healthcare and will never have life extension technologies as a public service.
There's also the difficulty of forever existing on the material world, according to our current understanding of physics. To be immortal in the religious sense in real life would require feats impossible to known physics.
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>>3133982
I'll believe it when I see it, until then it's irrelevant to my life.
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>>3134022
Multiple people in charge of the development of consumer technologies and software are of this "religion" so it already has impact.
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>>3133982
Kinda silly for the most part since most people who are enthusiastic about these things are not the people working to bring them into reality. Researchers are much more pessimistic since they know how hard shit really is. Technological singularity will probably always be "right around the corner" and "inevitable" just like communism. Both are basically built on a lack of an understanding of the subject matter, physical science and economics respectively. They're mostly for people who want a simple answer to the difficulties of the human condition and human life, that will come without them having to do anything, hence inevitability.
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>>3134349
name even 1
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Sergey Brin
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