Getting on your Singularity.

[Ishmael]

I was reading this science article;

Science, 2045 and Beyond

And at first thought it was pretty cool stuff. But the more I thought about it, the more issues kept popping up. Such as;

Who's going to pay the power bill and where is the power going to come from to begin with?

Will your singularity be able to work, and if so will it be able to draw unemployment.............and for how long?

Will you have your choice of firewalls? (This brings a whole new meaning to "Hacking Grandma".)

The longer I think about it the longer the list grows.

Ishmael

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I do not think I have 90 years to wait around...



What's to stop the cloning of your singularity making you a duplex?

 

[Lancecastor]

Futurists need to get laid more often so they can start predicting futures with shorter skirts and amazing tits and shit.

 

[yossi]

Futurists need to get laid more often so they can start predicting futures with shorter skirts and amazing tits and shit.

No poop fetish futures, please. Much thanks.

 

[Ishmael]

I do not think I have 90 years to wait around...



What's to stop the cloning of your singularity making you a duplex?

Asexual reproduction. Kinda like Bacteria, what a drag.

Futurists need to get laid more often so they can start predicting futures with shorter skirts and amazing tits and shit.

Anime'

Ishmael

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

When precious metals replace food...



Still fighting over the limited resources to create more, or will we limit?

Go to war with other singularities?

There can be only ONE!

 

[Ishmael]

When precious metals replace food...



Still fighting over the limited resources to create more, or will we limit?

Go to war with other singularities?

There can be only ONE!

Ahhh, the 'social networking' possibilities. Facebook's and Twitter's stock will soar.

Ishmael

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Will I have the plug-ins available to create my own little Universe?



What will my own image be for my creations?

 

[Ishmael]

Will I have the plug-ins available to create my own little Universe?



What will my own image be for my creations?

I imagine anything you want it to be, after all you're going to have plenty of time on your virtual hands and no particular place to go.

Your mention of resources does bring up a point though. The virtual human race will truly begin to grow at a geometric progression with an astonishingly large common ratio. Food in the traditional sense will no longer be a limiting factor.

Ishmael

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Finally, I will be able to escape via spaceship...


I'll visit Tralfamadore.

 

[Ishmael]

Finally, I will be able to escape via spaceship...


I'll visit Tralfamadore.

Combining that thought with Yokat's, perhaps we could find a way to get the singularities to consume CO2 and shit Fullerene or Carbon nanotubes with O2 as the other byproduct. of respiration. The construction of the space elevator would be mere chiolds play. Of course at the rate of singularity reproduction the Earth's O2 concentration would soon exceed 50% and all carbon based life would be incinerated. This might be avoided by sending all the singularities to Mars. Terra-forming at its finest. Then...................War of the Worlds!!!!!

Ishmael

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I might send my singularity into a black hole...



... my backup singularity.

 

[Ishmael]

I might send my singularity into a black hole...



... my backup singularity.

Halle Berry perhaps?

Ishmael

 

[miles]

Finally, I will be able to escape via spaceship...


I'll visit Tralfamadore.

Will Valerie Perrine be there in her prime?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Halle Berry perhaps?

Ishmael

Will Valerie Perrine be there in her prime?

I will be the Tim Tebow of singularity.

 

[Ishmael]

I wonder if they'll be taxed?

Ishmael

 

[ryan8558]

I wonder if they'll be taxed?

Ishmael

What a stupid question.

Haven't you seen our politicians in action? Of course they'll be taxed.

 

[Sean Renaud]

I was reading this science article;

Science, 2045 and Beyond

And at first thought it was pretty cool stuff. But the more I thought about it, the more issues kept popping up. Such as;

Who's going to pay the power bill and where is the power going to come from to begin with?

Will your singularity be able to work, and if so will it be able to draw unemployment.............and for how long?

Will you have your choice of firewalls? (This brings a whole new meaning to "Hacking Grandma".)

The longer I think about it the longer the list grows.

Ishmael

Most of that stuff will power off of the person itself.

Who knows about firewalls.

I imagine anything you want it to be, after all you're going to have plenty of time on your virtual hands and no particular place to go.

Your mention of resources does bring up a point though. The virtual human race will truly begin to grow at a geometric progression with an astonishingly large common ratio. Food in the traditional sense will no longer be a limiting factor.

Ishmael

Doesn't this directly compete with your theory about coyotes? As living becomes increasingly easy to maintain they breed slower because there is very little need? Combine that with an extra 30 years of birth control and I think the free time is a much bigger thing to fear than people breeding like crazy.

 

[doctor_insanus]

Futurists need to get laid more often so they can start predicting futures with shorter skirts and amazing tits and shit.

Gene Roddenberry was a visionary.

 

[Ishmael]

Doesn't this directly compete with your theory about coyotes? As living becomes increasingly easy to maintain they breed slower because there is very little need? Combine that with an extra 30 years of birth control and I think the free time is a much bigger thing to fear than people breeding like crazy.

Not really in that there is no replacement per se'. Each new human adds to the cumulative total. Death, for all intents and purposes, becomes a thing of the past. One is merely trading one stage of life, carbon based, with another, based on silicon and presumably some metallic structure. The whole 'coyote' theory falls apart at that point.

Ishmael

 

[Sean Renaud]

Not really in that there is no replacement per se'. Each new human adds to the cumulative total. Death, for all intents and purposes, becomes a thing of the past. One is merely trading one stage of life, carbon based, with another, based on silicon and presumably some metallic structure. The whole 'coyote' theory falls apart at that point.

Ishmael

I suspect your wrong. The longer you live the less purpose there is reproduction of any sort. Immortals shouldn't really have any desire to procreate. The natural principles shouldn't fall apart, certainly not quickly enough to be concerned with.

 

[Ishmael]

I suspect your wrong. The longer you live the less purpose there is reproduction of any sort. Immortals shouldn't really have any desire to procreate. The natural principles shouldn't fall apart, certainly not quickly enough to be concerned with.

Life as we know it continues, but death goes away. The 'virtual' being is not subtracted from the sum total of 'life.' Consequently the sum totals of 'souls' extant at any given time begins to increase at a rather rapid rate.

It is true that the virtual soul will be incapable of reproduction, at least for quite some time into the foreseeable future. But biological reproduction will continue. It may be true that the biological reproduction may taper off eventually. But I can't see us overcoming out biological urges for thousands of years. That stuff is pretty well hardwired into us.

If that should occur it will mean the end of our species. All human 'life' becomes virtual at that point in time. And whether the virtual human evolves from that point will be dependent upon the virtual entities ability to learn and grow.

Anyway, as virtual life becomes more prevalent the various permutations become more complex and all sorts of scenarios could be played out, up to and including 'Terminator' scenarios.

Ishmael

 

[Sean Renaud]

Thousands of years? As you pointed out there are gross differences between say socialist Europeans (negative birth rate right now with no singularity, and a need to import labor), Americans (with a barely stable population if you ignore immigration) and the third world such as Mexico or most of Africa.

Hell just within America can you can look at the breeding habits of the rich vs the middle class vs the poor. Or if you want to look historically how many siblings did your grand parents have? I know my grandfather was the the sixth of nine. A modern family with nine kids? Shit you damn near get a television show for that kind of insanity!

As you pointed out with the coyotes, all it took to adjust the liter size was to stop poisoning them all the fucking time and immediately they reacted. And we have condoms, birth control pills, whatever magical singularity I don't want to get anybody pregnant/I don't to be pregnant stuff comes up and abortions. I'm pretty sure, based on what I learned from you in the past that over population because of the Singularity isn't a primary issue.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

I want to see the equation that defines the human soul.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Gene Roddenberry was a visionary.

You got that right.