Ask A Genius 230 – The Layered Old
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/07/16
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Rick Rosner: I kind of believe in a slow singularity. Where you get all of your questions answered thanks to humans working with AI, but it takes – it doesn’t all happen in the 2040’s it takes 60/80/100 years after that for everything to roll out.
The singularity is when everything happens at once. So, I guess I don’t believe in the singularity. Because I think the singularity is going to take most of a century to play out.
So, by the 2080’s you have a lot of – it may be possible for people to live indefinitely and then you are going to have the layered old.
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