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kleinbl00 · 2321 days ago · link · · parent · post: The Impossibility of Intelligence Explosion ("The Singularity is not coming")
"The Singularity and the noosphere, the idea that a collective consciousness emerges from all the users on the web, echo Marxist social determinism and Freud's calculus of perversions. We rush ahead of skeptical, scientific inquiry at our peril, just like the Marxists and Freudians.” Jaron LanierThe Singularity is Heaven for nerds and their god is a silicon-based ineffability.