[extropy-chat] MOVIE: "The Singularity"

[Dirk Bruere]

On 9/27/05, Adrian Tymes <wingcat at pacbell.net> wrote:
>
> --- Jay Dugger <jay.dugger at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >From the Internet Archive RSS feed for videos; has anyone seen it
> > yet?
> >
> > http://www.archive.org/details/Bullemhead-TheSingularity251
> >
> > "The Singularity (2005)
> >
> > This video takes place on the day after the singularity.
>
> *rolls eyes* Not this tired luddite cliche again.
>
> Spoilers, technically - or view this as a warning for anyone thinking
> of watching it. The punchline is that "indefinite life and infinite
> knowledge = boring", so people start committing suicide the day after.
> The counter, of course, is the truly deep and complex mysteries of the
> universe (and of humanity), which even an immediately-post-Singularity
> intelligence would need quite some time to unravel (and which many
> people simply can't understand the joys of unravelling, having never
> applied themselves to solving the vast range of immediately relevant
> problems that even pre-Singularity intelligences are capable of
> cracking - many due to the errant belief that the problems are simply
> beyond their ability to ever do anything about, and thus do not merit
> the personal investigation which might disprove that belief).
>

A much more plausible doomsday scenario is all the postHumans setting the
pleasure centre inputs to 100% and vegetating forver.

Dirk
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