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ThulsaD00me t1_irk9bmo wrote

The ‘verse’ in The Singularity is Near that struck me the hardest was Kurzweil’s declaration that once a Being’s ability to think is at a scale of quadrillions of thoughts per second, time becomes arbitrary, because simulating all of existence within one’s mind in a very short period of time makes the passage of time almost irrelevant, and at that point the Being has attained Godliness.

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Mr_Hu-Man t1_irm1mcp wrote

I love this, damn!

Off topic but have you read Speaker For The Dead? There’s a section of that book that effectively explores this idea with an AI assistant. It blew my mind when I read it.

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beachmike t1_irni03h wrote

Not even close to "Godliness" in the Judeo-Christian way of thinking. Their God is omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, and eternal.

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