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The singularity stuff has always raised my bullshit detector enough that I never paid any attention to it, but after watching the video I'll admit Ray definitel
by SirWart 17y ago
The singularity stuff has always raised my bullshit detector enough that I never paid any attention to it, but after watching the video I'll admit Ray definitely has some really intriguing ideas about the exponential development of technology worth paying attention to.
- Devilboy 17y agoPeople seem to forget that he's been around for decades making predictions - and he's been pretty accurate so far.
- joe_the_user 17y agoWell, even more, the pattern he points to is not complex. It is simple exponential growth. And the mechanism is not magic, it is the power of miniaturization. The main thing I'd question is whether the results will be ... uh, good. There are some serious downside that one might imagine - the intelligent, autonomous, killing machines the US army is working on - I know it's cheesy to say but what could possibly go wrong? Seriously, technological shift makes nearly everyone nearly all-powerful. There might be toes that would wind being stepped on.
- kiba 17y agoArmed robots only make the US military more powerful. As for everyone else, it is time to upgrade to cyborg technologies, or counteract with killer bots of their own.