I'm glad someone else mentioned Moravec. When I first encountered ideas like transhumanism and the singularity as a teen I started exploring these topics at my

I'm glad someone else mentioned Moravec. When I first encountered ideas like transhumanism and the singularity as a teen I started exploring these topics at my local library. Even in my youth I was mildly skeptical but still cautiously optimistic that the ideas in these books would come to pass. I became very jaded with the state of technology when FAANG companies took over everything and computing devices became these locked down and addicting little glow boxes that push socially division and advertisements for crypto scams into everyone's mind and I became doubtful that these wondrous ideas would ever come to pass. For the first time in a long while I'm less jaded about those prospects. While I'm still skeptical I'm once again cautiously optimistic at the potential with technologies like LLMs and machines like Starship. Maybe I actually will get to live to see those crazy fractal trees that Moravec described.