It feels like we are missing the approaching singularity in a haze of all else that is happening in the world. We’re missing a lot of things. We’re missing how Israel is taking over Gaza. We’re missing how relatively quiet China actually is right now. We’re missing all the weird happening in space and under the waves. Yet for all of that I still believe the biggest turn we are missing is the thrust towards the singularity. AI is poised to allow us to make great leaps and bounds in technology over the next decade. Interlinked systems and wild robotics are happening at the same time.
All through it I keep thinking about the Ancient Flyer wall carving and how that could relate to the flattening of space-time. This singularity could have all sorts of impacts. It could in fact mess us up on a level in which the end of human time has already occurred and we are beginning to experience the bleed of that as we get closer and closer to that moment that takes us there.
Some Thoughts:
- I cannot remember things nearly was well anymore. I am only 5o, so this is a serious problem–a flaw in the system if you will. I don’t know if it means anything. On any given day I become convinced that I have early onset Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s Disease, or both. It’s as if I was cursed and it was a moderately effective curse. For example, I could not remember the term singularity and needed to replace it with my standard XX while typing. I wouldn’t ever have figured it out if not for the book The Singularity is Near, which happens to be near enough that when I turned my head to the left there it was.
- Sad.