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| A few hours ago, Elon Musk made a very chilling statement, and he's obviously one of the smartest people in the world on a wide spectrum of issues, so I really respect what he has to say. | |
| By wide spectrum, he's really proven himself to be an expert in many different fields and areas, and that's something that's really, really rare, and he's got the energy and clarity and focus really of a true visionary. | |
| And so when he came out and said that we are approaching the event horizon or basically at the event horizon of the singularity, that's a big deal. | |
| They can define the singularity different ways. | |
| When AI becomes super hyper intelligent and things are accelerating, that's one definition. | |
| Or to me, the singularity means when all the data and information in the world in any one second is known and most of the systems we know become obsolete. | |
| It's generally associated in most projections with a lot of turmoil. | |
| I would describe it as the Atlantean moment, whether you believe Atlantis exists or not, the legend of the archetype of a civilization with advanced technology that gets out of control and blows it up. | |
| I mean, to me, I see it more of as a cascade of little singularities and accelerations, the way I've seen history of different technologies operate. | |
| But it's true that it's all accelerating and then starts triggering faster and faster cascades. | |
| Towards something similar to the singularity that Ray Kurzweil talks about. | |
| But I mean, Kurzweil gets pretty delusional too. | |
| Like, I don't believe in God yet. | |
| I'm going to become a God. | |
| And just with paperwork and old recordings of my dad, I'm going to bring my dad back. | |
| I mean, no. | |
| Maybe they scanned his brain completely and everything back then, but they didn't. | |
| And it still would just be kind of a copy of his dad. | |
| So, indistinguishable from his dad? | |
| Maybe, but certainly. | |
| You know, not his dad, even with current technology that we know of. | |
| So this is a big deal though, because I really respect what Musk has to say. | |
| I'd like to see people comment below about what you think about the words he said and, you know, the huge ramifications of it. |
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