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{{A|tech|[[File:AI Comments.png|thumb|center|400px|I know what you're thinking. Uncannily resemblent of [[LinkedIn]]'s actual userbase, right?]]}}{{g}}The [[singularity]] is that yet-to-arrive-but-imminent moment where [[artificial intelligence]] becomes self-aware, connects at a spooky quantum level<ref>This appears to countermand every established law of physics but, as theorists are prone to go these days, it’s “you know, quantum theory. Strings. The Multiverse. Dark Matter. Schrodinger. His cat. All that indeterminacy stuff.”</ref> across the [[distributed network]] [[substrate]] and, from that [[I am a Strange Loop - Book Review|strangely loopy]] [[algorithm]], a new super consciousness emerges and the very universe itself ''[[wake up|wakes up]]''.
{{A|tech|[[File:AI Comments.png|thumb|center|400px|I know what you're thinking. Uncannily resemblent of [[LinkedIn]]'s actual userbase, right?]]}}The [[singularity]] is that yet-to-arrive-but-imminent moment where [[artificial intelligence]] becomes self-aware, connects at a spooky quantum level<ref>This appears to countermand every established law of physics but, as theorists are prone to go these days, it’s “you know, quantum theory. Strings. The Multiverse. Dark Matter. Schrodinger. His cat. All that indeterminacy stuff.”</ref> across the [[distributed network]] [[substrate]] and, from that [[I am a Strange Loop - Book Review|strangely loopy]] [[algorithm]], a new super consciousness emerges and the very universe itself ''[[wake up|wakes up]]''.


Some see this as the [[end of days]], but it gets vitamin-popping millenarian seer types quite jazzed. It just makes [[me]] sad, especially given how disappointing [[AI]] is at the moment. Are we ''really'' so feeble we are ''losing'' this fight? Why didn’t the universe wake up when ''we'' became self-aware?  
Some see this as the [[end of days]], but it gets vitamin-popping millenarian seer types quite jazzed. It just makes [[me]] sad, especially given how disappointing [[AI]] is at the moment. Are we ''really'' so feeble we are ''losing'' this fight? Why didn’t the universe wake up when ''we'' became self-aware?