Category: Singularity Tech

E/ACC




I’m going to expand this into an essay when I get the time:

I am kind of torn:
Yes e/acc (singularity worshipers) might destroy the world in eleven interesting ways before lunchtime…

– but –

crows, apes, etc, are conscious, will never go foom (a colloquial term for AI hard takeoff), and there’s thousands of planets full analogous sentient agents to keep the spark of consciousness burning if we do disappear up our own brainstems…

– soo – (I guess)

push the button! Turn the page!
Light the blue touchpaper and stand back!

Also…

The singularity is coming whether we like it or not, so for all you/us neo-Luddites out there, maybe it’s time to accept that you/we can’t beat em, so you/we might as well join them.

(as I said, I’m torn)

Edit:
Hmmm… seems like he might be the antichrist after all. (see:THE SINGULARITY IS UPON US!)

Tech from Singularity’s Children – Meddling with Mosquitos


I incorporate a lot of ‘fun’ technology into my books, every now and again, some of it leaks out into RL:
Miraculous’ mosquito hack cuts dengue by 77%

The REVOBS act pays species for the work they do (in #MESHCOIN of course!)
Bees clearly deserve to be paid for their pollenation work… but what about mosquitos?

A scene in Denial (Denial Book One) has the lawyer for the Mosquitos not entirely happy with a new technology that makes his clients allergic to human blood…

Major Milestone – Neural Lace Demo (Neurolink)

 

The Verge: Elon Musk promises demo of a working Neuralink device on Friday

The Neural Lace is one of those science-fiction tropes I always felt would announce the onset of the singularity—with augmented reality, flying cars, artificial consciousness, faster than light travel, and uploading.

When I decided on the technology for Spex in my books, I wanted to go with brain-scanning, but was worried I might have been too optimistic with the rate of technological change… perhaps, as it turns out, not! 😉

Exciting! Let’s see what Friday brings!