Re: The Singularity - Official Thread
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2022 11:27 am
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Harmful idiots. It's best to not give them views or at least dislike their videos if you watch them. Opposing The Technological Singularity is like opposing Cambrian Explosion or the Industrial Revolution. And they don't understand the concept anyway. TS is about the acceleration of life and its tools since the beginning of the Earth. Of course it's getting more widespread, thanks to the WWW. I remember (the crazy) Alex Jones talking about it (and mentioning Kurzweil) many, many years ago. Fortunately, he was banned from YouTube. Ben Goertzel wants en egalitarian, open, crowd-sourced, bottom-up Singularity, but I think it will be corporations (and some governments) pushing the most for it. As time goes on, my estimation date for the Singularity is being pushed further and further. I used to say 2045, then 2065, now 2070, but I'm more and more thinking about pushing my prediction to 2080 or later.Set and Meet Goals wrote: ↑Wed Feb 23, 2022 6:07 am A popular rightwinger made a video describing and attacking transhumanism so his audience knows what it is and hates it. Concepts such as the singularity are getting more and more widespread as we get closer to it.
I think both the hardright and left will oppose the development of singularity (left doesn't want it done by capitalists)
They've been doing this for years now. Decades even. Far-right conspiratorial types have been talking about transhumanism for almost as long as transhumanists.Set and Meet Goals wrote: ↑Wed Feb 23, 2022 6:07 am A popular rightwinger made a video describing and attacking transhumanism so his audience knows what it is and hates it. Concepts such as the singularity are getting more and more widespread as we get closer to it.
I think both the hardright and left will oppose the development of singularity (left doesn't want it done by capitalists)
I'd expect a more generalized "masses vs the elite" mentalityYuli Ban wrote: ↑Sat Feb 26, 2022 5:05 am I'm just waiting for the inevitable turn, the rise of the talking point "automation is being pursued by leftists to disempower the common man" and "automation is a hoax, experts all agree it's not happening anywhere near the sci-fi obsessed idiots say it is, and you ought to expect to get your hands dirty working for the next few hundred years, libtards."
I see the transgender stuff must have been been in the works a while ago then which makes it even more troublesome. I remember back in the 90's they were still showing some show from the 80's about transgenderism so I guess it was being tied into transhumanism since back then. I see why most people don't follow transhumanism when you have that going on.Set and Meet Goals wrote: ↑Wed Feb 23, 2022 6:07 am A popular rightwinger made a video describing and attacking transhumanism so his audience knows what it is and hates it. Concepts such as the singularity are getting more and more widespread as we get closer to it.
I think both the hardright and left will oppose the development of singularity (left doesn't want it done by capitalists)