📕 subnode [[@ryan/20210309214442 singularity]] in 📚 node [[20210309214442-singularity]]

The belief that technology will develop to such a point that machine intelligence will be on par with human intelligence. This idea was popularized in the late 90s.

The singularity idea fundamentally misunderstands how technology works, however, and is a concept of pure science fiction taken seriously. It assumes that technology is neutraland that technological progess is linear It is a mystification of technological development The singularity will not happen

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