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Juergeb Schmidhuber predicts the “Omega point” of technological development (including AGI) to be around 2040 https://youtu.be/pGftUCTqaGg https://youtu.be/pGf
by dqpb 5y ago
Juergeb Schmidhuber predicts the “Omega point” of technological development (including AGI) to be around 2040
https://youtu.be/pGftUCTqaGg https://youtu.be/pGftUCTqaGg
The MIT Limits to Growth study predicts the collapse of global civilization around 2040
https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/z3xw3x/new-research-vindicates-1972-mit-prediction-that-society-will-collapse-soon https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/z3xw3x/new-research-vind...
- zackmorris 5y agoThis is my feeling as well, that the rise of AGI conveniently coincides with the end of the world. I find it demoralizing because so many trends look just like that, where solving the ultimate problem results in the destruction of the context in which the original problem resided.
- dqpb 5y agoIndeed, once you start down the path of technological development, you enter a race between exponential progress and exponential resource consumption.