flâneur

Utopia is a particular restaurant in Brooklyn

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a sudden plate of popcorn

People ask: what does a positive future look like after the singularity? I try to resist mental capture by extreme ideas of the future, so my default response is to say “the singularity won’t happen”. But let’s say it happens. We hit the recursive self-improvement loop. Cancer gets cured, mosquitos are eradicated, our poodles are uploaded, there’s a techno-plague or two. Some of us live, and then what? What if the computers take over all the computer tasks, such that the world of bits simply falls from the sphere of human interest, and we return to the world of atoms? What if we all devote…

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