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choose your own adventure | the singularity is nearer

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In about 15 years, a desktop computer will be able to do everything a human can. In 25, a mobile phone. Barring a catastrophe, these are facts. What does the future look like for humanity? The only reason we killed all the animals is because the Earth is small. The longest flight is 9,537 miles, and that gets you pretty much anywhere. The names of all the people on the planet can fit in the RAM of a tinybox. Pictures of the earth at one pixel per square inch could fit in comma’s compute cluster. The Earth is small. I spoke with Tom Mueller last weekend and he talked about a moon base in such pragmatic terms. Putting it on the poles which are chock full of water. I felt for the first time in a while that these things were possible. (btw Project Hail Mary is quite an enjoyable read) Space is big and expanding. The metaverse is big and expanding. Humanity does not have a common destiny! Only communists think it does. The people in the “diversity” department. The one world government UBIer

In about 15 years, a desktop computer will be able to do everything a human can. In 25, a mobile phone. Barring a catastrophe, these are facts. What does the future look like for humanity? The only reason we killed all the animals is because the Earth is small. The longest flight is 9,537 miles, and that gets you pretty much anywhere. The names of all the people on the planet can fit in the RAM of a tinybox. Pictures of the earth at one pixel per square inch could fit in comma ’s compute cluster. The Earth is small. I spoke with Tom Mueller last weekend and he talked about a moon base in such

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