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A Scientist Says Humans Will Reach the Singularity Within 20 Years
Popular Mechanics ^
 | 6/30/2025
 | Darren Orf
Posted on 07/02/2025 7:24:27 AM PDT by cuz1961
...Futurists have long debated the arrival of the singularity, when human and artificial intelligence will merge, a concept borrowed from the world of quantum physics.... 
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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: ai; babel; ifhfakescience; mooreslaw; neuralink; singularity
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posted on 
07/02/2025 7:24:27 AM PDT
by 
cuz1961
 
To: cuz1961
    There will be no merging.
 
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posted on 
07/02/2025 7:28:42 AM PDT
by 
Delta 21
(None of us are descendants of fearful men!)
 
To: cuz1961
To: cuz1961
    Then what? Spontaneous Human Combustion?
 
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posted on 
07/02/2025 7:30:36 AM PDT
by 
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
 
To: cuz1961
    The incels are already there...
 
To: cuz1961
    What does “singularity” even mean anymore?
 
To: Delta 21
    Somebody’s not gonna like that...
 
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posted on 
07/02/2025 7:38:51 AM PDT
by 
OKSooner
(Always carry. Even if all you can handle is a .22, carry it. You might be surprised.)
 
To: Delta 21
    Six responses in and no Borg references? Tsk tsk.. d;^)
Resistance is futile?
 
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posted on 
07/02/2025 7:39:54 AM PDT
by 
CopperTop
(Outside the wire it's just us chickens. Dig?)
 
To: cuz1961
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posted on 
07/02/2025 7:41:00 AM PDT
by 
smokingfrog
(  sleep with one eye open (<o> ---      )
 
To: circlecity
    What does “singularity” even mean anymore?
 \
 the same thing those weasels meant the 1st time ?
 ” first there was nothing, then nothing evolved into everything “
 
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posted on 
07/02/2025 7:42:01 AM PDT
by 
cuz1961
 
To: cuz1961
    I wrote my senior humanities thesis on this “symbionic” relationship in 1984.
The title was MANIAC.
 
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posted on 
07/02/2025 7:43:45 AM PDT
by 
Carry_Okie
(The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
 
To: cuz1961
    this is a prediction of AI/Human hybrids , or, they plan for us to evolve into gods.
.
 
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posted on 
07/02/2025 7:44:54 AM PDT
by 
cuz1961
 
To: cuz1961
    “Singularity” is more bi-polar now than anything.
 
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posted on 
07/02/2025 7:56:53 AM PDT
by 
Delta 21
(None of us are descendants of fearful men!)
 
To: cuz1961
    I’ll be dead long before then, so who gives a crap.
 
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posted on 
07/02/2025 7:59:20 AM PDT
by 
mass55th
(“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”   ― John Wayne)
 
To: cuz1961
    A Scientist Says Humans Will Reach the Singularity Within 20 Years Just in time to be powered by nuclear fusion.
 
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posted on 
07/02/2025 8:02:12 AM PDT
by 
Steely Tom
([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
 
To: cuz1961
    I believe we are already slaves to computers. I can’t imagine having one hovering in my brain directing me to do what ever they “think’ is best for me ... yes master ... I hear and obey.
 
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posted on 
07/02/2025 8:03:46 AM PDT
by 
antidemoncrat
(In a way ge is right as)
 
To: Resolute Conservative
    "The incels are already there..." 1970s = swinging singles
 2040s = swishing singulars
 
To: antidemoncrat
    "I believe we are already slaves to computers." Ted Kaczinski's manifesto doesn't seem as nutty as it did back in the '90s.
 
To: cuz1961
    No thanks...that job is already taken...
 
To: cuz1961
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posted on 
07/02/2025 8:33:17 AM PDT
by 
sauropod
(Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
 
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