It gets very hard to predict the future once you have smarter-than-human things around. In the same way that it gets very hard for a chimp to predict what is going to happen because there are smarter-than-chimp things around. That’s what the Singularity is: it’s the point past which you expect you can’t see.Nate Soares
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The Singularity is the point past which we expect that we cannot predict the future. This concept is based on the fact that we can predict what will happen in the near future, but not in the far future.
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