Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Trying to wrap my mind around a Technological Singularity

I was thinking in terms of past extinctions of creatures on earth. Often what ended groups of mammals or dinosaurs would be unexpected.

For example, I was reading how Mastodons and they were saying that creatures like Mastodons and Mammoths (relatives of Modern day Asian and African elephants) were possibly driven extinct by an ice age and by Human kind simultaneously.

If you think about this in present day, for example, the human race has in many places driven the common honeybee almost extinct in many areas of the earth by using neurotoxins in the form of insecticides on crops worldwide.

So, when anyone says to you that they don't know why honeybees are dying off that is really complete bullshit!

So, for example, in relation to the Technological Singularity we are presently entering (obviously), I have to say that humankind could easily be extincted by something as asinine as neurotoxins.

So, people shouldn't be surprised that we are also vulnerable to a Technological singularity because from one point of view, if we went extinct because we couldn't pollinate our food anymore this could be considered a part of a technological singularity too. Because neurotoxins are made technologically by the research of man.

So, likewise there are many directions human extinction could come from and all of them stem from one kind of ignorance or another regarding a number of things in technological research presently coming up or from things invented in the last 100 years or so worldwide.

So, you have to have enough people alive who are also aware of what is actually going on in order to prevent human extinction from everything like nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, the extinction of bees, Geomagnetic Reversal or excursion, or any of a number of other things.

Then now, you have computer programs or drones of air, land or sea or under the ground, who might be able to make decisions independent of human thoughts or decisions.

So now, the problem of potential human extinction just got 100 or 1000 times more complicated. Because, for example, what if someone wrote a program to infect all servers on earth which then infected all drones on earth for some nefarious purpose? What if a drone was fitted with a nuclear weapon and could function independently from any human thought?

All these things and thousands more are possible now when they might not have been 20, 30, 40 or 50 years ago. And they could happen within a few seconds instead of an hour or two or a few weeks or two like it would have been before.

So, the likelihood of something happening big not being recognized for what it actually was could go on a day or a month even without anyone realizing it was creating the end of life on earth, for example.

You might think this is impossible.

However, in the 1950s or 1960s would anyone have thought people would be stupid enough to almost extinct all bees on earth by using neurotoxins as insecticides on crops? And then we wonder why humans who eat food with this spray on it get alzheimers or senile dementia?

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