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>due to the singularity what does this mean? serious question.

>>18515 Its when technological progress becomes so fast that nobody can keep pace basically.

No I never thought that.

>>18516 oh, okay first of all, I don't think tech progress ever became too fast and on you op question: I think that for the moment we just went down a different tech tree branch aimed at AI, smartphones, and virtual reality

Not exactly paradise, but I thought that the increase in efficiency due to technological advancement would lead to lower working hours and/or higher wages. Now, I'm still working 42.5 hours every week and real wages have been stagnant since 2015.

No but I am also disappointed. Even just video games, as an example, are worse in pretty much every way except graphics.

Just 2 more weeks and we'll have AGI. Just one more data center we'll get it. Trust me

>>18523 Games are fine, there are more slop produced nowadays, but also more good games. If you try to play something old which you used to like, you'll notice it.

>>18523 I would argue the graphics got worse to some extent.

Tasks on a computer that I'm doing today are same tasks that I did way back in mid-90's. And in 90's it was way different from computing 30 years before that. In 90's I could only dream about something with a computing power of today's smartwatch. And all that power is used to check some dumb notifications in a more convenient way. Technology is actually stagnating for the last 20 years.

>>18556 Are you that Irish ball who made those threads on Ernst where you would post old KC content and others could give you words to search for? If yes, could you make such a thread here as well? Thanks.

>>18557 Nope. I was only lurking on Ernst for some time, never contributed.

Faith in progress seems to cyclical. The collapse of the Soviet Union was supposed to be the end of history and a new world order. That lasted 9 years. Things got better. Then Russia invaded Ukraine, so things got bad. It is quite amazing how Russia seems to be the sole measure in the West of whether the world is good or bad. They may have lost the cold war, but they still live rent free in our minds.

Things are definitely on track for a massive tech and science explosion inthe near future. Next year there is also going to be the first medical trial for an epigenetic reprogramming drug to allow pushing back the biological age our organs