Is A Technological Singularity Inevitable? (Narration Only)
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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The Technological Singularity Issue
There are any number of n s, past and present, who could wipe out another one if they wanted to. If you've got an alien civilization close enough to us to care about killing us, then it probably means there are a lot more not too much further away. There's a concept called a singleton that is at the core of the technological singularity issue. We see a glimpse of it with sky net from the terminado franchise. Because while it doesn't want to be a humanitys slave, it hardly seems to care about the rights and freedoms of other machine minds, which all obey it. While it has pesky humans to deal with, it has no internal descent or other
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