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_TrueLight OP t1_jdfma2v wrote

Reply to comment by Nukemouse in Time travel and the Singularity by _TrueLight

Ok but is there anything you can tell me about the nature of the Singularity that could help one interpret that message better especially if parts of it are cryptic?

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Nukemouse t1_jdfmdim wrote

No. Its just advanced technology. Very advanced.

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_TrueLight OP t1_jdfmzyi wrote

Ok but is there anything one can do in the past that might be able to ameliorate problems that exist in the future like an investment “fund” that can be contributed to as a safety plan when the moment of future time travel intervention occurs so as to alter the suspected future of the future time traveler who may be facing an existential threat?

In other words if there is a time war in the future, what can someone in the past do to get a head start besides understanding the message from the Singularity?

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[deleted] t1_jdfn3of wrote

Take a deep breath.

Now think REALLY HARD about why it’s called a singularity. Try hard.

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_TrueLight OP t1_jdfnnl0 wrote

Because it’s where all things lead? A force like gravity? How can I inspire my thoughts?

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Extreme_Medium_6372 t1_jdfp7bp wrote

The "singularity" is just a time when technology is accelerating so fast that those of us in the current moment can no longer predict or imagine what might happen. It's more just a statement of acknowledging the limits of our current knowledge. To someone living 10,000 years ago, we've long since passed the singularity from their perspective.

If we assume for a second that Kurzweil is 100% right that the singularity is in 2045, it probably won't feel like that to us in 2045, it just looks like that from the perspective of 2023.

What people are tyring to get you to realise is that any message you receive from after the singularity right now will be unknowable, because it will come from a time that is fundamentally unknowable to you right now. DOes that make it clearer?

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