@Mr_Paradox Excellent answer. Very true.
@elbanditoroso Ha! Indeed that would be clever branding.
@RocketGuy Maybe, but that’s an unsustainable position.
@drhat77 I suspect the only think likely to nuke it is if, in our current stupidity and contentiousness, we nuke each other.
@Rarebear Is that just an article of faith with you, or do you have some evidence that leads you to think that?
@drhat77 Indeed they do. And it’s also how remarkably many good scientists who predict what will never happen get things bass-ackwards wrong.
@kess That may be were the technological approach leads. But nobody has demonstrated to me that they, as living human beings, have actually become I AM, THAT I AM. If you already are, then just smite me with a lightning bolt for doubting your perfection. If you are unable to do that, then it seems to me the path you have taken hasn’t gotten you very far either, except in your own view of yourself.
@RealEyesRealizeRealLies We have lots of singularities. There is one at the center of every black hole in the known Universe, and there may be many more in Universes as yet unknown. But I was very careful to specify that this was not about “a” singularity but “The Singularity” and I even linked to a definition of what that is. If that definition has already been met by science, it is news to me, and it’s news to the American Academy of Science and the Royal Society and AI researchers and geneticists all around the world. I lose respect for people who don’t read the details of questions; or who, having done so, prefer to assert their own definition as being superior to the one the rest of society uses in discussing something.