I think this guy is laboring under a misconception of what a "singularity" is...
I think he is too hung up on the root word, and thinking its describing some form of "singular" "unity".
Its "singularity" as int he opposite of a blackhole, as in some font of infinitely flowing energy/matter.
This statement, sums up his entire straw-man arguement:
#1 - Science and Technology are diverging, not converging. The entire idea of the singularity is that everything is coming together and one day we'll be
Done.
The thing behind behind singularity is simple.
The sum of human technology and understanding of the universe is increasing.
The rate at which that increase is happening, is ITSELF increasing.
Anyone who has passed highschool algebra realizes what you have here describes an exponential curve.
The result of which is not that you reach some number and then stop.
Its that you start reaching infinitely high numbers...
Singularity does not describe some utopia.
It simply states that we are approaching some kind of world where the rate at which technological advance is so fast, that "state-of-the-art" will
change in MOMENTS.
It used to be state of the art moved in thousands of years(stone/bronze/iron), 50 years ago it was changing in the course of a decade. Its already arguably
under a year now.
I think he is too hung up on the root word, and thinking its describing some form of "singular" "unity".
Its "singularity" as int he opposite of a blackhole, as in some font of infinitely flowing energy/matter.
This statement, sums up his entire straw-man arguement:
#1 - Science and Technology are diverging, not converging. The entire idea of the singularity is that everything is coming together and one day we'll be
Done.
The thing behind behind singularity is simple.
The sum of human technology and understanding of the universe is increasing.
The rate at which that increase is happening, is ITSELF increasing.
Anyone who has passed highschool algebra realizes what you have here describes an exponential curve.
The result of which is not that you reach some number and then stop.
Its that you start reaching infinitely high numbers...
Singularity does not describe some utopia.
It simply states that we are approaching some kind of world where the rate at which technological advance is so fast, that "state-of-the-art" will
change in MOMENTS.
It used to be state of the art moved in thousands of years(stone/bronze/iron), 50 years ago it was changing in the course of a decade. Its already arguably
under a year now.