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I notice a lot of similarity in the way articles like this discuss "the singularity" and how some preppers and survivalists discuss "when SHTF". Underlying the

I notice a lot of similarity in the way articles like this discuss "the singularity" and how some preppers and survivalists discuss "when SHTF". Underlying the warning, there's a drooling sense of anticipation, as though a) they're so invested in the idea of the disaster that they hope something, anything, will happen to show that they were right all along, and b) they are so dissatisfied with the current state of the world that they want to see it break down. I don't think either one is a healthy or realistic approach to life.

larodi 5y ago
The amount of BS, overgeneralisation and lack of credible evidence in such articles is so overwhelming that it all sounds more like 60s science fiction rather than actual thing happening. In fact the man-machine interfaces and the expand of humans through human-mind-controLLED machines is much more here, so I’d rather expect Transformers than AGI to wave a hammer anytime soon… A self-driving car is not intelligence, and not general. Nor is some algebraic structure that can produce values denoting similarity of something to something.