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Why petty squabbles are irrelevant

By Andrew

So supercomputers depend on superconducting materials which in turn depend on super low temperatures at or near 0K (at least currently). The theory is that once we crack the supercomputer nut we could potentially use it to predict a method of creating superconductors that function at room temperature. That means we can create supercomputers that could potentially sit on your desk top. It's the 1970's again 😄

Artificial intelligence works in a similar way, if we could create an intelligent machine capable of human level intuition and creativity but with the precision and accuracy of classic computers it could hypothetically develop an intelligence superior to itself (and us).
 
The exponential growth of neural network capabilities combined with the exponential growth of computing potential, and then combined with other technologies like gene technologies, nano tech, other uses for superconduction such as energy harvesting and storage, and who knows what else, we've got a technology explosion right on our doorstep.

Either we destroy ourselves with an unimaginable level of power, or we create a omniscient being that abandons us, or we merge with this being and completely dominate the physical realm as an actual god. According to reliable prediction models this technology explosion known as the singularity is expected to occur by about 2030. That's 10 years away... makes any racist bullshit seem really insignificant now doesn't it?
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maki.dm said…
In the 21st century all people will be conservative. I base this on the fact that in reality only the devices and algorithms will be truly progressive. And man will lag behind like an old cumbersome biomass, as the eternal rearguard of development.

Peter Sloterdijk
11 October, 2019 10:53

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