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I think the author has the unstated assumption that "humans will continue to work on smarter and better machines until such a god-like machine is eventually con

I think the author has the unstated assumption that "humans will continue to work on smarter and better machines until such a god-like machine is eventually constructed, OR that machines will be created that can self-improve until this state is reached." It doesn't seem unreasonable to me -- the alternative is that at some point in the future, we STOP making machines smarter for good.

argonaut 10y ago
There is no reason to believe it is even possible to even create such a God-like intelligence. Even harnessing the energy of the sun would not give you enough energy to compute anything about the universe. We also have every reason to believe that even if this were possible, it would only happen in the far future (e.g. hundreds of years).
- drdeca 10y ago
  Only hundreds? That's not that many lifetimes.
  - argonaut 10y ago
    I was just pulling a number out of thin air. We're in scifi speculation territory so the numbers are all made up.