Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
Ideas move rapidly when their time comes.
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.
By definition, the Singularity means that machines would be smarter than us, and, in their wisdom, they can innovate new technologies. The innovations would come so quickly, and increasingly quickly, that the innovation would make Moore's Law seem as antiquated as Hammurabi's Code.
But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
It's a very frightening time when something as basic as due process is seen as somehow radical.
The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated.
Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
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