[extropy-chat] The (frighteningly likely) alternative to singularity.

[alexboko]

So you think singularity is inevitable? Read this brief essay.

http://home.tiac.net/~cri/1996/making.html

It explains IMO a very plausible alternative scenario for what can 
happen, more succinctly than I have managed to so far, and perhaps in 
sufficiently science-fictiony terms that even a transhumanist might give 
it some consideration before dismissing it as leftist propoganda. Which 
it absolutely is not.