What is the Singularity?

[rkswapper]

I'm stoned, this guys a nerd, I don't even know how i got here....

[puleknow]

Completly retarded... First singularity of technology is virtually impossible. The universe is infiinty. It resembles too many boundaries that technology can be determined in a realistic sense. @marscube yep thats exactly what implying. Just think of it this way. What happens when we start fucking around with microblackholes the same we do in particle physics. Hello godly super new field which will take anthor million years to crack. yeah.. the defintion of science basically means endless. USA!!

[bengarick]

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[joneyxj9]

I'm not very bright, so this is probably a dumb question: Was the statement about the aliens looking exactly like vulcans meant to be sarcasm? If so, I don't understand why you would choose something that is not only possible, but, in some instances, highly probable. I think I would have "got" the sarcasm if you had used a better example of an impossibility.

[lemons604]

You at it from the point of view man This is why your assumptions are wrong. In this one must look only at everything as a whole. I see the point that you can only see what you see, but this is in it's own idea that it is more: so one must not use measures and efforts that are in and of themselves that limit the view such as society and man previewed vision of development: to move on this in any other way would be to lose the highest logic and reason ( Life and time). I give this idea to help.

[jomill78]

what the ... o come on dude do u realy even know what a singularity is made of?

[PinkProgram]

Progress isn't occurring fast enough for me ^_^ humans are slow :D 

[vaiority]

I didn't understand a goddamn thing you said...yeah

[Shadowstar204]

Ok it is accelerating change in INFORMATION tech, of which more and more things are becoming. We indeed do plot change of technological civilizations on graphs but we recognize that the line of change may be subject to slowing, and even loops, but it never stops and even after a loop (aka the Dark Ages) it picks back up and winds up back on track. Carl Sagans Cosmic Calendar, the Museum of Natural History, & many other sources support this evidence, and its inference to our future. More to come.

[WolYou]

Right. Predictions are pointing into nothingness. Predictions are pointless.

Technology won't accelerate that much anyway. We've passed the peak. From now on we must think about how to use our ressources. We are on the path down (compared to the last century), not on the way up. And for all who believe in unlimited development: Everything is finite.

[marsCubed]

you are too sure of your facts lol the universe may be infinite, or it may be part of an infinite field of potential. this is how it is modelled in physics.

Also there is likely to be a much greater development of technology as we begin to use quantum properties of matter and nano tech. existence comes in many forms, from a note of mozart to galaxies, and all the stuff in between. I think we are only just beginning to glimpse our future and start our technoiogical development now.

[pierarronax]

What possible evidence do you have that "technology won't accelerate that much anyway". Kurzweil wasn't just throwing predictions about without extrapolating. It's based on Moore's law and a bunch of other fairly reliable stuff. It's not a certainty, I know, but it's FAR more unlikely that we've reached a point where the rate of acceleration decreases or even plateaus

[PsychoJosh]

You are an idiot

[TheCareMores]

@PsychoJosh haha, your names psychojosh, you sir are the idiot

[PsychoJosh]

@TheCareMores Fuck off. I wasn't talking to Funkalunatic or you.

[TheCareMores]

@PsychoJosh haha....you need to chill out bro...

[governmentcheese411]

wow dude you need to go read a book or two really. you have no concept of where we are technologically. we are on the verge of becoming a type 1 civilization and your still stuck back in the stone age with these uneducated attacks at what you obviously have no idea about. really dude next time you get a thought in your head...whack your head with a hard blunt object until it goes away. if anyone asks what your doing... just tell them your doing your part in helping humanity.

[seanotube85]

HAHAHAH! You've gotta be kidding me. Technology has passed its peak?? What world are you living in?

[Shadowstar204]

I issue a challenge to whoever thinks we have passed the peak, please go to Ray Kurzweils site and subscribe to his KurzweilAI newsletter, over days or weeks you will receive information from tremendously diverse amounts of highly reputable sources and your doubt of the Curve will began to seriously be called into question. In two months time of reading every article you receive, say that nothing is happening without feeling like a fool.

[NichtDieseTone]

@WolYou

You plain suck.

[PinkProgram]

@WolYou you think humans are past the peak of technology as of last year? Wow what an unimaginative monkey...

[jbartz]

i agree with you. It's ridiculous to assume you can calculate, quantify, or graph > technology; rate of change; historical trends b/c it all depends on what the subjective observer deems a more significant technology or time in history than what another observer might conclude.

[Tachyon55555]

not that fun to listen too when you have just finished the entire x-files seasons, but the makers of this dvd allready knew this in 1992 so we see what we see...

[Z1Z12]

i had two but the wheels came off.

[TopeMKD]

dude...should atleast wave to the camera...moron

[floodwatch11108]

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[funkalunatic]

Oh no, it's awoken! WE'RE DOOMED!!!

[floodwatch11108]

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[asynkronos]

@funkalunatic LOL!!! It's just one of those pesky reptilians, silly.

[xpedition7]

"not a discreet event," interesting as I have always conceptualized the singularity as a collapse, or as the extrapolation of duality to its source which is non-duality, or One, or the singularity. Interesting to think of it as a process, or in flux.

[jdiggitty]

do not make another video. Or at least let someone else do it for you.

[Pabruzzese99]

Why not save yourself and your viewers the time and simply post the word doc that you so ineloquently regurgitated as a .doc so that we don't have to attempt to read it backwards off of your deliciously thick coke bottle spectacles.

scroll... scroll... scroll...

go drink bleach.

[kyle1946]

I think you lot should change your word from singularity to something else. I'm wanting a nice video about point space singularities at the absolute centre of black holes. Bastards! lol

[particleion]

This is the same starting point i used before i reached where i am ... Its important we start at what the singularity is.

[neuronstorm]

I have a suspicion that the 'problem space' will expand at a rate greater than or equal to the technology improvements or even to the IQ improvements necessary to understand it.

The increased technology itself is an added complexity that requires more technology and understanding to deal with - you see a hint of this already in the difficulty in understanding and integrating the myriad of computer software systems.

[neuronstorm]

In other words.. it seems to me that 'the singularity' is relative.

To humans who refuse to enhance themselves - it'll be a singularity - to those who manage to evolve along with it.. it'll be business as usual, except that you have to be growing in IQ just to stand still. As there's presumably no limit to complexity - what will be the limiting factors for beings on this curve I wonder? Physical restraints on gathering and defending resources that form a part of your brain I guess...