Rainbow wrote:J11, I'm curious: do you think it's possible to say (without any amount of doubt) that there will be a cognitive singularity?
The empirical evidence – the
Fermi Paradox – suggests that at a certain level of development, civilizations may just end. (
May – or they ALL become silent, which seems unlikely.) Whether they end after a massive increase in intelligence (the term
singularity seems wrong to me) or not, I have no idea. But I'm (barely) young enough to suspect that worrying about dementia is the least of my concerns. By the 2030s or -40s, I think, in all seriousness, the more serious threat will be hyperintelligent machines, most likely created in part by accident (self-learning voice recognition programs or something). So, myself, I think there will be a massive increase in intelligence (almost certainly machine intelligence), but I fear it will only go a bit beyond the level of the smartest humans before it becomes an insane nihilist and destroys itself and everything around it. I really hope I'm wrong, of course!
ε4/ε4 (for now).