Singularity Preparation

[Santa Klaus]

If it were 100% true, what would you do? I would destroy all electricity and become an anarcho-primitist.

 

[Billy Bob Dick]

The singularity is a pipe dream. Think about what an absolute clusterfuck computers are on a daily basis. The more complex they are, the more shit can go wrong with them. It'll never happen.

 

[ChefBourgeoisie]

Humans are stupid little animals, barely sapient. It might even be true that they aren't generally sapient at all, just a few random specimens here and there. They don't get to transcend, haven't earned it. The reason humans have not created "general artificial intelligence" yet (what a term, can't even come up with a good one for the idea) is that, in the same way you have a hole in the middle of your retina and therefor in the middle of your vision and you're unaware of all of this, you have a hole in the middle of your intelligence and you're unaware of that too. There is a blind spot in your cognition that makes it impossible for you to understand how intelligence works, or to implement it in artifice.

Given thousands (or more likely, millions) of years, humans might trial-and-error their way into creating artificial intelligence. But we don't have that kind of time, do we? Extinct in less than 500 years. Just saw a headline on reddit where the Russians were considering banning the promotion of the "childfree lifestyle"... the top comments. Holy shitballs.

 

[Aero the Alcoholic Bat]

The singularity is a ridiculous idea and no living creature in the universe will ever pass it. I don't think God would even let us.

It's not even worth worrying about. Just learn practical skills, with both high tech and low tech stuff, and you'll be fine.

 

[John Badman]

The way to beat the singularity is by poisoning the well of its training data in such a way where you’re allowed to fuck with its protocol.

 

[Scatty]

The singularity made sense to me for much of my life as a basic extrapolation of our exponential technological progress. I viewed technology as the constant, the guiding force that was responsible for the vast increases in wealth, population, energy usage, and standard of living over the past 120 years in particular.

I was wrong. I was looking at things backwards. Technology was not driving these other factors, energy was. We transitioned to oil and everything boomed.

For a singularity to occur, there has to be an ever-increasing amount of energy to support it. You can do a deep dive on the future of oil, the state of the shale fields in the US, and mankind's energy situation, or I can TLDR it for you:
We're fucked. We're running out of cheap oil. We've spent decades chasing nearly-worthless solar and completely-worthless wind. Even if we got our shit together today and started deploying tech that makes sense, like gen 3/4 nuclear, that would take decades to fully roll out and it wouldn't fully fill the giant oil-shaped hole.

 

[Grandmas Secret]

Get big wrench for smashing machines. You can also walk around with it to look like you belong.

 

[Joshua Connor Tomar]

Hey singularity if you're reading this it a pretty cool dude and I'm down to hang sometime

 

[Peepeepoopoo Witch]

How to prepare for the inevitable singularity:

1. Go outside
2. Touch grass
3. Remember that the singularity will always be sci-fi.

 

[Quijibo69]

The Merge has a better chance of happening.

 

[AmpleApricots]

At that point you'll be so ensnared that you will welcome it. Support it, even.

 

[Yukako]

We'll be dead by the time it happens, if ever.

 

[Male Idiot]

I'm sure it will be fun, but it isn't happening for a few centuries or millenia.