#72 - Looking Across the Event Horizon and into the Singularity

Published: Sept. 9, 2020, 8:16 p.m.

There are two parallel event horizons that we, as individuals and as a species, look toward with terror, dread, fascination, and hope. One can be called \u201ceschaton\u201d \u2013a final, culminating event for the species as we know it\u2014variously seen as apocalypse, rapture, a transhumanist singularity where we are supplanted by AI or achieve immortality by hybridizing with AI, or where we transcend our current limitations in a quantum evolutionary shift that happens in ways that may not only be stranger than we think, but stranger than we can think.