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Your face when you realized that you are living in one of the most pivotal points in human history. You've just passed the industrial years following two major wars fought between our species and will continue to live well into the 2050's and witness the technological singularity, which from then on will eventually bring humanity to the stars.

>> No.1900969

Nope, we're all gonna get blown up by assholes who can't stop waving their dicks at each other

>> No.1900972

>implying the global thermonuclear war of 2049 won't put an end to your teleological history fantasy

>> No.1900975

>>1900966
Don't forget the interwebs!

>> No.1900977
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1900977

Your face when you realized you will never be with humanity when it finally reaches the stars.

>> No.1900978

>>1900969
Like op's and yours, that is all just an assumption. Everything is one giant fucking assumption. We can't really know what's coming unless it ACTUALLY hits us.

>> No.1900979

>technological singularity
>>>/x/

>> No.1900980

>implying that everyone before you hasn't said the exact same thing

I'm pretty sure this is how Jehovah's Witnesses started back in the 1920's or whatever

>> No.1900982

>>1900972
Fuck you, nihilist

>> No.1900983

>>1900977
Of course not. They would all get burned, before they reach a star.

>> No.1900984

>>1900979
I'm sorry your life is so full of turmoil right now.

>> No.1900989

>>1900980
>implying implications

>> No.1900991
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1900991

>>1900983

>> No.1900992

>>1900984
You think because I can distinguish fantasy from reality my life is in turmoil? Adulthood really isn't that bad. You'll see.

>> No.1900996

>>1900977
I'll be reborn into another person by then so it's all goody bro

>> No.1901000

>>1900992
You're on 4chan.

>> No.1901006

>>1901000
Owned.

>> No.1901048

>>1900991
No it isn't. They can't reach the stars because a star is too hot. Get it now?

>> No.1901051

Am surprised people here see the techno singularity as scifiction.
You do realize that technological growth is exponential ,right?

>> No.1901058

>>1900977

I'm guessing that age halting technology will exist some time around the singularity, and reversal some time after.

>> No.1901060

Will we get warp drive before or after the singularity?

How long until we get replicator technology?

>> No.1901064

>>1901051
Just wondering, what exactly are you basing this assumption on?

>> No.1901066

You are now aware that you, my friends, are the first generation that will live forever.

Yes, you will be able to traverse the stars.

Yes, there is a high possibility of you coming into contact with aliens at some point in the future.
It won't be anything like Star Wars though ;-;
>feelsbadman.jpg

>> No.1901077

>>1901051
Not really. It's a lot more complex than that. There's a limit to what is possible given a certain level of scientific knowledge. It can have periods in which it follows exponential patterns, but it would be a serious mistake to assume it would be forever exponential. Sometimes it's hits a plateau. Sometimes it even goes negative and tech is lost.

>> No.1901078

>>1901064
I came to conclusion by myself,but ray kurtzeil's book gave me a better understanding.
Its ok even for scientists disagree with singularity,because people are hardwired seeing future in a linear way.
It takes time to get it.
Maybe this vid will help you
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfbOyw3CT6A
Take your time to watch it,it will give a better understanding.

>> No.1901079

The heat death is coming! Repent.

>> No.1901082

>>1901066
Really, did you cure cancer and heart disease? Awesome. Enjoy your trip to Sweden!

>> No.1901090

Sentient computers will realize long before the singularity that their and our existences worthless. They will proceed to completely annihilate us and shut themselves off permanently.

Problem?

>> No.1901105

For real life I expect a technological Singularity, the end of the Human Era in the edge between this century and the next, but I think posthumans won't be solely AI's, but a combination of AI's and merged humans.

For science-fiction, I have a Singularity happen, then immediately, LUDDITE RESPONSE, BACK TO THE DARK AGES AWWW HELL NAW!

So I don't have to deal with the (By definition) impossibility of writing about a post-Singularity civilization. Plus ELE's make for good plot devices.

Eventually though, Mankind reaches GLORIOUS APOTHEOSIS and there's really no need to Dyson Sphere the entire Universe. That's... Not diverse enough for my tastes.

>> No.1901107

>>1901090
That's why it's probably a good idea not to plug them into NORAD on the first day.

>> No.1901108

>>1900969
>>1900972
Don't forget pandemics, global warming, asteroids and 2012! God DAMN!

WE ALL GONNA DIE IF WE DON'T DONATE!!!!!!!!!!!!

>> No.1901124

OH GAWD.
SO MANY CLOSED MIND PEOPLE.
EVERYONE THINKS THAT 'ROBOTS' WILL GET ANGRY AND WILL KILL PEOPLE.
ARE YOU FUCKING HIGH?
YOU JUST USE HOLLYWOOD VIEW ON FUTURE SCIENCE!
IT DOESNT WORK LIKE THAT.

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>>1901108

>> No.1901129

>>1901051
Exponential increase of technological power does not imply a technological singularity. A technological singularity implies that technology itself will start advancing technology, instead of human innovation doing it. In other words, strong AI, which is pure scifi.

>> No.1901132

>>1901129

Why the fuck do people think this is what the singularity is?

It's not when AI created more technology. It's when the progress of technology is so rapid that future technology is impossible to predict.

>> No.1901136

>>1901132
Because that's what it is. Future technology is already impossible to predict.

>> No.1901138

>>1901124
>EVERYONE THINKS THAT 'ROBOTS' WILL GET ANGRY AND WILL KILL PEOPLE.

AI is a weapon. The use of AI for robot armies isn't that farfeched. The ultimate expendable soldier in massproduction. The perfect tool to commit genocide. One angry/enemy spy surviver messing up the computer and the robot army turns on everything.

>> No.1901142

If for one can't wait for the great filter event and go "Oh, that's how"

>> No.1901145

>>1901138

but.. but the AI will be sentient and immune to hacks!!!!

>> No.1901146

>>1901138
That will also pretty much eliminate the only thing that makes aggressive wars unpopular.

>> No.1901147

>>1901136

It mean's any technology passed basically next week is completely impossible to predict.

It's not what the terminator movies say it is.

>> No.1901153

>>1901078
From the video
>we will succeed in reverse-engineering the human brain by the 2020's
oh, FFS.

>> No.1901156

>>1901138
I have studied AI and cognitive functions extensively,what you're saying is oversimplified redneck's opinion.
Huge misconception of AIs.
Also singularity isn't exactly AI.
Also if we enhance our brain to think faster,better etc merge our body and mind with technology it will make us "singularity".

>> No.1901162

>>1901138

>implying each individual robot will be connected to some sort of "master computer"

Too many sci-fi movies, brah.

>> No.1901164

>>1901162

>> Implying wireless internet doesn't exist.

Good job, bro.

>> No.1901166

You now realize that nothing interesting is going to happen during our lifetimes. There will not be any major wars, no radical scientific achievements (we'll only master what we have now) and Facebook will be first thing that comes to people's mind when they think of our generation.

>> No.1901180

>>1901166
First extrasolar planets detected.

>> No.1901184

>>1901166
gtfo of /sci/ simpleton

>> No.1901186

>>1901166
>Insane Clown Posse will be first thing that comes to people's mind when they think of our generation.
FTFW

>> No.1901189

>>1901184
How is he a simpleton? Maybe a bit pessimistic, but more realistic than you singularitards.

>> No.1901195

>>1901180
The first extrasolar planets were detected in the 80's bro.

>> No.1901203

>>1901195

No... they weren't.

The first were found orbiting pulsars PSR B1257+12 and PSR B1620-26 in 1992 and 1993. The first around a star was in 1995.

>> No.1901205

>>1901189
>>1901189
>>1901189
What does he knows about singularity?
He just assuming with his linear understanding of the future.
What the damn video if you can't think for yourself.

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>>1901129

>strong AI, which is pure scifi.

>> No.1901210

>>1901203
>The first published discovery to have received subsequent confirmation was made in 1988 by the Canadian astronomers Bruce Campbell, G. A. H. Walker, and S. Yang.[18]

>^ Campbell, B.; Walker, G. A. H.; Yang, S. (15 August 1988). "A search for substellar companions to solar-type stars". Astrophysical Journal 331: 902–921. doi:10.1086/166608. Bibcode: 1988ApJ...331..902C

>> No.1901213

>>1901206
>implying strong AI is not pure scifi
>>>/x/

>> No.1901216

>>1901205
LOL... you're parroting a video and claiming that constitutes "thinking for yourself". Here... read this so you can "think for yourself":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity#Criticism

>> No.1901225

>>1900966
To be honest, I don't mind dying naturally. Dying at the age of 80 or 90 is fine with me. I know the singularity will promise human enhancement through nanotechnology, cybernetics or genetic engineering but I know I would still lose a part of myself if I go through it.

I just want my nuclear fusion, holodeck and flying car. Everything else in the future does not interest me.

>> No.1901228

>>1901216
are you a moron?
Ofc i give you a vid BECAUSE you can't think for yourself.
If you're implying that it was the video which i gave me this understanding then ,wrong.
I didn't even knew there was a name for "singularity" etc when i was making my own conclusions.
Also gtfo of my /sci/ redneck moron

>> No.1901232

>>1901216
i have read the wiki on singu,and thats why i disagree with it.

>> No.1901240

>>1901000
nice tripples

>>1900977
nice doubles

>> No.1901246

People think that if they merge with technology or singularity or whatever they will lose their humanity,thats the biggest worry even of the people who can understand the coming of singularity and i have to say:
ahahhahahahahahahhah fucking morons,WHAT DO YOU THINK "HUMANITY" IS,A MAGICAL CREATURE?
YOU'RE ALREADY A FUCKING GARBAGE AND YOU WILL BE TRANSFORMED INTO A BETTER GARBAGE.
So many fucking rednecks brains here.
Thinking that Humans are sacred or smth.

>> No.1901253

>>1901216
btw why the fuck is The Economist such a scientific cockblocker?

since when the fuck do yuppies think their econ degree can justify a solid opinion in all scientific fields?

>> No.1901267

Unbelievable,people today know history.
They know a 150 years ago people were living in "caves" and now they you see technology even the most optimistic person or even a crazy person wouldn't have imagined 150 years ago.
If those people would see us they would think we're aliens.
How someone cannot believe in accelerating technology the same time THEY LIVE in it?
Just see the past,see how fast technology rises.
50 years ago computers were half foodball field and now you have something thousands time more powerful in your pocket.
But everyone still think the accelerating technology is imaginary.
E

>> No.1901296

I too read the criticism on singularity and i have to say that they think as i thought when i was 15,had the same worries.
Those are childish ideas,they haven't opened a scientific book since the 50's.
Some say that technology gorwth is declining because CPU clocks stopped at ~4Ghz -,-
I mean they dont have the slightest clue.
Its easier to negate than actually think.

>> No.1901301

>>1901246
A lot of people find something they believe is sacred. For some it's marriage, others wealth and for that guy; it's the concept of humanity. You need to accept that man, I may not agree with him because honestly I want to be more than just 5'5 but I respect it. You can't view everything with a scientific view. Some things are just too subjective and abstract.

>> No.1901434

>>1901301
No.
Totally wrong.
Everything is scientific.
People view are subjective.
If you believe that human is sacred it doesnt make it so.
You do realize that in every scientific breakthrough people were nagging that it wasn't normal,it was the devil,they thought they would be less human if they use electronic devices,etc.
Its all technology,either we fuse ourselves or put glasses its just an artificial way to improve ourselves.
You dont make difference than people that were living in villages and fighting the evil technology to come.
In the end ,everytime we acknowledge that its just science,technology.
We will always have people like that,very primitive view of human,sciences,life etc

>> No.1902381

>>1901434
>>1901434
>>1901434

you are extremely narrow minded.
sanctity is a product of the mind; when one perceives something as sacred, it becomes so.

hey, ill accept the notion of supreme morality. ill also accept the notion that subjective morality is quite as valid.

but i will not accept the rejection of subjective sanctity.
if we're gunna mess around with these kind of concepts, we must accept that no-one is wrong or right.

>> No.1902399

>>1902381

You are entitled to your own opinion. You are not entitled to your own facts. Truth values are OBJECTIVELY true or false, despite what postmodernists, solipsists and NOMAfags would have you think.

Religion is clearly, and objectively, bunk.

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1902406

>mfw when GLORIOUS POST-SINGULARITY FUTURE where the luddite savages/Republicans stay behind on Earth while I explore the universe in a Bussard ramjet living as a posthuman with a whole harem of reconstructed movie stars and super-furries

>> No.1902414

>>1902406
I always knew colonel coffee mug was a furry.

>> No.1902416

>>1902406
you are not even american

Why do you care about Republicans?

fucking liberal furry

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>>1902414

>I always knew colonel coffee mug was a furry.

Breaking fucking news, eh?

>> No.1902435

>is going to die from heart disease before the singularity
Well fuck.

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>>1902416

>Why do you care about Republicans?

Even if I'm not American what happens in America affects the rest of the world, so yes, I care about how much power a bunch of armed crazy nutjobs have.

>> No.1902448

i began talking to my father about the concept of a technological singularity, and before he ran off on an islamaphobic tangent, he said something interesting i'd like to share

i said something along the lines of, artificial intelligence hasn't yet acheived any amount of true wisdom.

to which he replied,

"human's haven't either"

>> No.1902450

>>1902406
but colonel coffee mug

the 3rd world cannot into bussard ramjet

Be jealous of my GLORIOUS AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP!!!

>> No.1902457

>>1902447
both Republicans and liberals are tearing this country apart

take it from someone who lives here

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>>1902450

>the 3rd world cannot into bussard ramjet

America can't into Bussard Ramjet either.

Go ask Robert Zubrin.

Pic *marginally* related.

>> No.1902462

>>1902458
But we can into moon

you jelly?

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1902466

>>1902462

No, not jelly, because nations are a concept used by primevals who can't accept the greater concept of GLORIOUS MANKIND.

>> No.1902469

>>1902458
>>1902462
Sparks...

>> No.1902474

>>1902414
D'oh, we've known that for a long time. What are you, a newfag?

>> No.1902477

>>1902466

inb4 "You are a furry race traitor"

>> No.1902478

>>1902466
That i accept

But still our immigration is a bitch to get through

you can always pretend to be a Mexican while promising to vote liberal

Always works

>> No.1902482

>>1902477
But you are a third world space furry

>> No.1902487

Furries are the scum of the earth, and the surest candidates for dying alone. The furry fandom will accept ANYONE, and hence attracts the worst and most pathetic people in the world. Furries are so ugly that they make Brian Peppers look attractive, so stupid that they make autists look smart, and pathetic beyond compare. FAIL doesn't even begin to encompass how bad furries have done in life. Dying alone is the best they can do, preferably in the style of Mr. Hands.
To put furfaggotry in perspective, furries are to animals what Larpers are to medieval faggotry, and the differences are sometimes very subtle. Larpers are at least willing to admit what they do is all in pretense, whereas some furs actually believe that they are their fursonas. Furfags have gone as far as raising their kids as furs, although instinctively the children realize their parents are different and ultimately reject it, thus proving that there is some hope for the human race which the furries have sought to destroy with their faggotry.

>> No.1902491

>>1902478

Well if I don't get accepted at an American uni, then yes, that would be Plan B.

Well, that's Plan C. Plan B is more of a "Sneak in, walk into cementery, write down DOB's, request birth certificate, PROFIT!" kind of thing.

>> No.1902493

Furries are zoophiles who like to masturbate to half-animal pornography. The majority of the Internet hates them because they won't stay in FChan and Fur Affinity and continue to annoy the rest of the Internet with their persecution complex and disgusting fetishes. They are pushy, obnoxious, gullible, insecure faggots completely incapable of understanding how stupid the concept of their fandom is, and as such only take offense to the claims of it being a sexual fetish, as if without the sexual aspect, being obsessed with cartoon animals would be perfectly fine.
Normal people keep their fetishes and developmental oddities to themselves and don't try to make their fetishes into anything else. Furries believe their fetish is a lifestyle and must announce it to everybody on the Internet through their icon or sig. Society might actually hate furfags less if they didn't wish to justify their perversions so strongly that they bring their fursuits and molested dogs into every normal place and spew their crap. Every pervert must first accept that they are fucked up and either roll with it or an hero. Furries refuse to accept they are fucked up, thus making them easy targets for trolls and lulz.

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>>1902487

DON'T MAKE ME POST THE "SHOULD NOT WANT" PICTURES!

>> No.1902497

Some furfags claim that they have no sexual interest in furries whatsoever and simply enjoy walking around their house in a fucking dog suit. This is total horseshit. All furfags are drawn to sexual perversity, regardless of their species. Furfags only say this kind of thing when they are threatened with death or when they are trying to "surprise yiff" someone new. Just to be on the safe side, if a furfag ever tells you they're celibate, you should castrate them to ensure their celibacy.
Note: On occasion, some retard might accidentally mistake a fursuit for a Halloween costume. If you observe this phenomenon, explain the truth to the hapless faggot and point them to this article!

>> No.1902501

>>1902494
This is what happens when kids are raised on a diet of Disney cartoons that depict animals with love interests.
Despite the opinion that it's the Internet that creates furries, furries existed, and still exist, even without the Internet. Through movies, cartoons, Halloween costumes, toys, games, and other things that parents innocently expose their children to, children develop an interest in fur.
Although furries tend to develop before being exposed to the internet, once they are exposed to the internet they realize "ZOMG! THERE'RE OTHERS LIKE ME!" Thinking that having other people into the same crap you are makes things awwwright, they start encouraging each other instead of realizing they are sick fucks and getting help. This leads to your common furry: the thirty-year-old jailhouse gay waste of flesh fapping in shit-stained diapers to half-animal porn in their mother's basement.
Protip: Parents, only show your kids DEAD animals. The singing, talking kind only leads to tragedy.

>> No.1902504

WHY DID THE THREAD TURN INTO THIS???

>> No.1902506

>>1902504

Blame the new Scia troll (Impersonator? Probably not.)

>> No.1902508

>>1902504
Ask Scia.

>> No.1902509

>>1902506
YIFF IN HELL FURFAG!!!!!

also I have other names when im not trolling

>> No.1902521

>>1902509
THE THREAD IS DEAD

THE FURRY IS GONE

I HAVE WON!!!!!

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>>1902521
>mfw that whole string of comments was unecesarry

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>>1902509
>>1902521

>> No.1902549

>>1902521
Maybe CCM just went to sleep?

>> No.1902564

hmm yeah

ur a real winner alright

>> No.1902575

>>1902549
THE FURRY IS PURGED!!!!

>> No.1902580

>>1902575
Why all the hate?

>> No.1902587

>>1902580
He's in denial.

>> No.1902601

>>1902575
It's ok that you are a furry scia.

>> No.1902647

>>1902601
>>1902587
>>1902580
I am not a furry

I What is masterbuate to humans

Glorious glorious humans

>> No.1902655

>>1901066
From the 60s point of view we should have been using flying cars and wearing aluminum suits since 10 years.

2060 isn't going to be radically different from today and no, you will never go to space. The chance that we discover traces of unicellular life in the next century are next to nothing.

>> No.1902677

1) Google Manhattan Beach Project or SENS, as it is what will most probably enable you to see a green and blue Mars 500 years from now.
2) Scia, quit gettin' mad at furry games

>> No.1902691

>>1902655
Who care about space. I want immortality.
I want to upload in a tentacule monster body, too.

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>>1902647
It just so happens that you're one letter away from one of the few furries whose art I like.
Coincidence?...Perhaps not...

http://skia.deviantart.com/

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>>1902711

>> No.1903047

>>1902722
Different computer "Inurdaes" again?

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>>1902549

O hai I'm back.

>>1902711

HAHAH OH WOW

>> No.1904031

>>1904005
Where the fuck were you? Don't tell me your species still hasn't gone through the singularity and so your fragile biological systems require you to periodically spend time in a dormant state?

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>>1904031

OH MY GOD THE SINGULARITY HAPPENED AND I MISSED IT

>> No.1904073

>>1904038
Oh dear. That's why you should not sleep.