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The upcoming genetic divide?

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  1. Kevembuangga says:

    There is a basic contradiction in all the chatter going on about the “Singularity”, if it is truly to fit its definition no predictions can be made about its results.
    Yet the afficionados like Kurzweil keep blathering about it.
    It is much more likely than anything exponential within a bounded context will result in some sort of crash than in any “transcendence”.
    And as it has been highlighted by Ross Ashby and Gordon Pask building up complexity requires slowly evolving parameters from the environment, thus any abrupt changes are likely to destroy complexity rather than enhance it.
    Evolution took billions years for some reason…