When I was younger, back in high school no less, I read Hans Moravec. Mind Children<\/i>, an amazing book.<\/p>\n
Verner Vinge, the Singularity. I’m there. The technological trends are there. Teilhard de Chardin, the noosphere. Got it. Human knowledge will become so<\/i> massive, technology will be able to create minds better than ours, the next step in evolution will be as different from us as we are from Australopithecines.<\/p>\n
By the way, I spelled “Australopithecine” correctly without<\/i> having to look. Because I’m just that good. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
The point is, I’ve realized what will inhibit the Singularity.<\/p>\n
Search engines.<\/p>\n
Or rather, the ability of search engines to keep people from the things they want to know. Because they don’t know how to phrase it.<\/p>\n
Or, worse, the ability of search engines to give people exactly<\/i> what they want. Despite their spelling being for shit.<\/p>\n
I always thought “alien pitchers” was bad. No, they’re not asking about Saavik, ace of the Starfleet Academy pitching staff.<\/p>\n
Today, I saw something so mind-bogglingly stupid that… well, the mind boggles<\/i>.<\/p>\n
I’m now convinced that the Singularity won’t happen, and all because of Google.<\/p>\n
Because it encourages stupidity. Not<\/i> intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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