by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I spend a lot — a lot — of time thinking about history in the macro. And right now it definitely seems as though America is willfully drifting into tyranny and it’s all a very dumb lulz.
And, yet….and YET…there is something we just can’t plan for: the Singularity.
If an ASI pops out in the next few years — say before Trump leaves office — that would be like alien First Contact in its historic scope. And fucking Trump so unpredictable that you just can’t figure out what might happen.
I think up these “peace in our time” scenarios when it comes to ASI and the Singularity, but that is more about me be a native contrarian than anything else. It could be that fucking SkyNet really is our fate when it comes to ASI.
Anyway, the Singularity would be The Day The Earth Stood Still whenever it actually happened.
