And people thought The Fridgularity was far-fetched.

https://geni.us/TheFridgularity

Extrapolating to the #AGI world is more difficult because it is post-#TechnologicalSingularity.

Some "top AI influencer" on LinkedIn gave their two cents today, saying that even if intelligence is solved and abundant, it won't solve practically any problems because humans by and large aren't using intelligence now to solve problems.

Ok, he wasn't using a lot of intelligence in writing that, that much is given.

Anyway, once we have abundant intelligence focusing on all the hard problems, and diving deep into unexplored frontiers like nanotech (there's plenty of room at the bottom) and space, reality in effect becomes programmable.

This doesn't mean reality minus minds.

All becomes achievable, all diseases including personality disorders and old age can be cured, and the reach of humanity as an amalgam of machine and human minds expands seemingly infinitely.

Some of the smaller things achievable very fast are practically limitless sustainable energy, limitless sustainable materials and compute. This doesn't mean increased ecological footprint, it means negative ecological footprint. Sustainable superabundance doesn't mean at the exploiting the living world we have done so far, it means sustainable superabundance for non-human living ecologies as well.

When our world takes such a leap, we will certainly quickly find others in the universe who have done the same leap.

Vernor Vinge, father of the tech singularity, has died at age 79 - Enlarge / A photo of Vernor Vinge in 2006. (credit: Raul654)

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