crashfrog writes:
the notion of the "singularity" is that the rate of technological change is increasing and has only ever increased; but there's no evidence that the rate at which humans can grapple with technological change is increasing, or increasing at a comparable rate.
Thus, technology will eventually begin to change faster than humans can keep up the change. This is obvious and must, mathematically, come to pass.
I don't see how this can happen as long as humans are creating and using the new technologies. Our society as a whole obviously does not understand all the principles of new technological innovations, but we still use them, and more importantly, buy them. The marketplace controls the rate of technological changes.
I think as long as technological advances are created by humans, and humans are willing to buy them, then we are going to be able to keep up.
If the time does come when computers, AIs, robots, etc. start creating technological innovations on their own, for their own purposes, without direction, input or control from humans, then we will probably not be able to keep up.
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