How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
From Vernor Vinge
The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.
But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.
I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.
We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.
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