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 So it isn’t that we are progressing ever more quickly ''towards'' something, but the place whence we have come falls exponentially ''further away''. We, and our technology, meander like a perpetually deflating balloon through design-space. Our rate of progress doesn’t change; our discarded technologies simply seem more and more irrelevant through time.
-The [[singularity]] is an idea based on perspective chauvinism. That we are arcing exponentially upward ''towards'' something, as the [[adjacent possibilities]] explode around us<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEtATZePGmg ''The “Adjacent Possible” – and How It Explains Human Innovation''], [[Stuart Kauffman]], TED, </ref> presumes that where we are, somehow, as close to our common end goal — truth, nirvana, [[apocalypse]]? who knows? — as civilisation has ever been. Now, seeing as we don’t, [[Q.E.D.]], know what that end goal is (else we would already be there), nor therefore can we know how close we are to it, nor whether we are going in the right direction. Better hypothesis, thanks to [[Occam’s razor]]: ''there is no end-goal''.
+The [[singularity]] is based on perspective chauvinism. {{singularity and perspective chauvinism}}
 Come to think of it, the current vogue for grandiose political apology, today, for the cultural transgressions of 17th century explorers is a form of perspective chauvinism, too.