The singularity. Is it here?

[Phlog]

Singularity is is a hypothetical future point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable consequences for human civilization. According to the most popular version of the singularity hypothesis

"The first person to use the concept of a "singularity" in the technological context was the 20th-century Hungarian-American mathematician John von Neumann.[5] Stanislaw Ulam reports in 1958 an earlier discussion with von Neumann "centered on the accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue".[6] Subsequent authors have echoed this viewpoint.[3][7]" (Wikipedia)

We're in it now aren't we?

It feels like every tech field I can understand is facing huge advancements. It feels like it's uncontrollable and irreversible.

 

[tomjones]

Society should try and stop advancements in technology?

 

[Randlewand]

Singularity is is a hypothetical future point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable consequences for human civilization. According to the most popular version of the singularity hypothesis

"The first person to use the concept of a "singularity" in the technological context was the 20th-century Hungarian-American mathematician John von Neumann.[5] Stanislaw Ulam reports in 1958 an earlier discussion with von Neumann "centered on the accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue".[6] Subsequent authors have echoed this viewpoint.[3][7]" (Wikipedia)

We're in it now aren't we?

It feels like every tech field I can understand is facing huge advancements. It feels like it's uncontrollable and irreversible.

Yes. And I, for one, welcome our new waifu overlords.

 

[Pittie Petey]

The society should try and stop advancements in technology?

Yes, but only if humans want to survive past a few more generations

 

[Wetarmpits]

There's no singularity in my kitchen. So no. It's not.

 

[Flower2dPeople]

Perpetual incel state?

 

[Sonny Qc]

I just want to see the world's end in my lifetime tbh.

 

[Phlog]

Perpetual incel state?

South Korea has a birth rate of 2 per 100 people. So yeah, that's coming.

 

[Phlog]

I just want to see the world's end in my lifetime tbh.

I did too. Then I had kids. Now I'd rather it goes a little longer.

 

[jx820]

which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible

Technological growth has always been more or less irreversible. That's how technology works. The only way to unwind it is to erase the existing knowledge and expertise.

The good news is, that may be possible. There's a quote attributed to Albert Einstein (albeit unproven) that speaks to this exact point:

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”​

 

[Wetarmpits]

How many of these threads have you already made by now? @Phlog
And why? You will just say we are doomed like in the other ones before anyways.

 

[bandicoot]

Yeah, we're all gonna die.

 

[mjmj]

Singularity is is a hypothetical future point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable consequences for human civilization. According to the most popular version of the singularity hypothesis

"The first person to use the concept of a "singularity" in the technological context was the 20th-century Hungarian-American mathematician John von Neumann.[5] Stanislaw Ulam reports in 1958 an earlier discussion with von Neumann "centered on the accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue".[6] Subsequent authors have echoed this viewpoint.[3][7]" (Wikipedia)

We're in it now aren't we?

It feels like every tech field I can understand is facing huge advancements. It feels like it's uncontrollable and irreversible.

We've been in it since people discovered fire, or the wheel.

I think some of you have way too much time to sit around and think about crazy shit.

 

[kimocomplex]

There's a lot of people who suck, but the great ones are keeping them in check

 

[Fedorgasm]

I don't think we reach the singularity until AI can improve itself forever without human intervention, AND has the "desire" to do so.

Right now, humans could stop AI. We have the power. But unfortunately we're too stupid. If one country outlaws it, other countries will just continue developing it.

And even if it were outlawed worldwide somehow. It's out there already, so you'd still have tons of people working on it illegally.

This will be bad for humanity in a lot of ways. I can't believe there's so few people concerned about it.

 

[Sweater of AV]

Yes. It's over. Memes and barely functioning AI that can't do the most basic shit have won.

 

[Phlog]

We've been in it since people discovered fire, or the wheel.

I think some of you have way too much time to sit around and think about crazy shit.

I get what you're saying but I think that's a disengenuous expansion of what the singularity defines. I think you're moving the goal posts to a point it's not useful.

Fore for example has foreseeable consequences and is a natural phenomenon.

The singularity is about rate of change, the rate exceeding humans ability to adapt to it. We adapted to fire on a evolutionary scale.

And regarding your comment about having too much time, I think while I'm doing other things. I can walk AND think, chew AND think, so it doesn't actually impact my productivity at all.

 

[Spam On Rye]

Sounds like a bunch of gnostic gobbledygook made up by people who make science into their religion.

 

[Phlog]

How many of these threads have you already made by now? @Phlog
And why? You will just say we are doomed like in the other ones before anyways.

You're not wrong. I think it's 3. Might be 4. That's 100% more than I made about anything else.

It's just that I find it absolutely fascinating, life long I've read sci-fi about this stuff and now I'm living in it.

And I'm uncertain about what happens. I think we integrate the tech into ourselves, but I also think countries and empires will impload. We might have less than a 1% survival rate, maybe a vanishingly small one, but I'm team vanishingly small survival rate and if there's ever a way through it will be because we think about it.

 

[Wetarmpits]

I think while I'm doing other things. I can walk AND think, chew AND think

Man, that's really impressive.