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The Singularity is a belief that you can extrapolate from history and current events to a specific point in the future that will lead to some very religious sounding results:

* Eternal life

* A powerful entity or entities who will fix whatever is wrong

- An end to poverty

- An end to disease

* Personal Freedom

This is entirely a faith based belief that can not be proven or disproven. It is by no means certain that you can extrapolate to a singularity in our future. Nor is it certain that you can assume it will have the claimed effects. While the term singularity in math and physics has a well defined term with clear non-religious meanings. "The Singularity" is entirely a faith based religious belief.

parent zaphar 1 year ago

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