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Post by Rogers91 on Oct 19, 2010 5:05:29 GMT -5
The singularity is a theory that in the mid to late 21st century technological progress will take place so quickly that it will become impossible to predict.
Now go crazy.
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Post by amon91 on Oct 19, 2010 12:57:11 GMT -5
Uhm, who knows, maybe we'll have space aliens coming up with all the nerdy stuff for us. There's no way for us to predict what'll happen.
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Post by Rogers91 on Oct 19, 2010 13:39:48 GMT -5
Well maybe but let me narrow said topic.
There are many sciences that believe with the creation or perfection of there work we will hit this curb of super progress.
The words super computer, robots, clones, AI, nano bots, super human capabilities, immortality, and many other advances that if happen will give us that little push that helps us finish every other major advancement leading to terraforming technologies and space travel and many great things we could only speculate on at this time.
So what do you think we will create and or perfect to reach that point and once we do what things do you think would change or happen. (obviously we can't know what is unknown but we can still speculate on the matter till our eyes bleed which i am hoping we will have a cure for soon.)
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Post by austkyzor on Oct 19, 2010 16:02:47 GMT -5
I always thought the singularity was when humanity and machines became one...
Basically, we develop AI, then the AI grows so advanced that they become as human as we are.
"The year is 2029. The machines will convince us that they are conscious, that they have their own agenda worthy of our respect. They'll embody human qualities, they'll claim to be human, and we'll believe them" - Ray Kurzweil - The Age of Spiritual Machines
Granted - in Kurzweil's follow-up The Singularity is Coming he moved the date a bit further back. Still - the idea is valid.
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Post by Ryan on Oct 19, 2010 16:19:21 GMT -5
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Post by Rogers91 on Oct 19, 2010 16:20:39 GMT -5
yes one of the mainstream ideals of the singularity is machine and man become one but the original theorem is that technology is on an exponential curve and that at some point we will be developing technology at a rate beyond comprehension this is one of the more common images you see when the singularity is discused...
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Post by krzych32 on Oct 19, 2010 18:18:08 GMT -5
Not if I can stop it!
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Post by nicolii on Nov 27, 2010 18:21:11 GMT -5
I do understand the exponential increase in technology... but is it true that there is no limit?
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Post by newschooled on Nov 27, 2010 19:15:01 GMT -5
I do understand the exponential increase in technology... but is it true that there is no limit?
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Post by austkyzor on Nov 27, 2010 19:37:19 GMT -5
For the next 24 hours newschooled wins at things he's not even supposed to win at
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Post by Flappy on Nov 27, 2010 19:41:27 GMT -5
It's possible.
-end discussion.
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