"Proto-singularity" of egyptian times is archetype to ours

FF here: I didnt want to look like a fool again (lol) so I had him do a dry run for me, then I made my post-its ahead of time, then we did it again with the camcorder. I think it works better this way, but I really miss the direct video interface. P.S. I tried some desktop recording software but it didnt capture sound too well :(

Transcript:
Greetings little people.
I am Eidolon TLP.

Official website user bonopi inquires my comments on the fact that the pyramids of Egypt were created with a great level of sophistication. Answer: The pyramids of Egypt, as well as many others feats of engineering pre-dating the Roman Empire, were the result of a time period which is archetypical in many ways to a Technological Singularity, as it manifests the following tell-tale attributes:

1: It was triggered by cognitive technology.

2: It had a nearly exponential rise over time, and

3: It dramatically changed the path of evolution.

Attribute number 1: A cognitive technology trigger. The event that gave rise to this proto-singularity was the invention of writing technology. The inefficiency of oral tradition necessitated pragmatic caps to the amount and quality of knowledge that could be transferred from one generation to the next. Sustaining life required large time investments in activities other than learning, and as such, learning had to limit itself to only the most urgently needed knowledge. Writing Technology changed this paradigm by allowing the storage and distribution of more knowledge than was strictly needed for basic life sustenance. This in turn created various positive feedback loops, as many generation's worth of knowledge could now be transmitted in only a few years' worth of a single generation, which in turn had now even more time left to contribute to the knowledge pool of the next generation, and so on successively.

Attribute number 2: Nearly exponential rise. Compared to the millions of years it had taken biology to evolve sentience to a homo-sapiens stage, the mere thousands of years it took writing to evolve sentience into a civilization stage, certainly seems small and sudden, nearly asymptotic.

Attribute number 3: A dramatic change in the nature of evolution. Before this milestone, the evolution of sentience was primarily biological in nature, a process measurable in million-year units. But after this milestone, the evolution of sentience became primarily cultural in nature, and therefore measurable in mere thousand-year units. The last six thousand years of human civilization certainly seems like a flash point in a graph of human sentience that extends about two hundred thousand years into the past, to the rise of the biological modern human species.

As I've mentioned before, any technology that is sufficiently advanced, quickly escapes comprehension and is perceived as "magic". This certainly applied to the Pyramids of Egypt, which were unequivocally advertised as playing a role in the supernatural afterlife of deceased members of the human oligarchy.

I expect the coming singularity to manifest the same three hallmark signs as this ancient proto-singularity. It will be triggered by cognitive technology, in this case Artificial Intelligence. It will result in nearly exponential evolution, in this case measured in single year-units, as it will create similar positive feedback loops, in this case manifested as increasing skill in the task of creating A.I. And it will certainly alter the nature of sentient evolution, via transhumanism. Although we are scarcely capable of imagining them now, we can certainly look forward to future counterparts for the Pyramids of Egypt, and many other wonders which would once again escape comprehension today, and would be quickly labeled as "magic".

Thank you for the interaction.
Goodbye.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• egypt
• pyramids
• protosingularity
• writing
• technology
• evolution
• culture
• sentience
• magic
• asymptotic
• exponential

[foundring]

Every time there's a new vid it feels like christmas morning I swear

[bfaulk04]

wow, this was great

[AnarchyBegins]

good vid :)

[AnarchyBegins]

just look at the technology we have and how far civilization has come in just 100 years.

we are living the singularity right now.

check out the video I uploaded today called 'more than human' :)

[spectrumfrequency]

cultural evolution is biological as explained by codons which control genes and can be directed by environment through the interplay of neurotransmitters and cellular mechanisms

[freequeshowe]

i don't think things will be labeled as magic if sold as technology, people will just assume it is beyond their individual comprehension... which may very well lead to a worship and faith in tech, which i think we are somewhat seeing now

[sanchezdot]

100/100 :)

[mtheoryrules]

symbls where used to perserve knowledge prior to this and you have not mentioned oral history preservatoin and its possible influence on or contribution to this event, but I agree for the most part with your comparasions, very good I am happy.

[witnessing]

From what I've read, the singularity is not a moment or a point in time, it is a period of time. This is the period of time we are living in now... The Singularity.

[witnessing]

What sparked ancient and Egyptian intelligence is the same thing that sparked or "birthed" Eidolon.

[solouko]

with the advent of writing technologycreating a protosingularity, are we not still experiancing this singularity? or have we experienced yet another even smaller singularity in the form if infomation technology including the interent itself which has alowed a consolidation and freedom of acess to knowledge in the same way writing did 6000 years ago?