Template:Singularity and perspective chauvinism
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That we are arcing exponentially upward towards something, as the adjacent possibilities explode around us[1] presumes that civilisation is, presently, as close to “the singularity”, whatever that is — truth, nirvana, apocalypse? Who knows? — as it has ever been.
But, seeing as we don’t know what or where that end state is (if we did, we would already be there, Q.E.D.), nor therefore can we know how close we are to it, nor whether we are going in the right direction.
A better hypothesis, thanks to Occam’s razor therefore: there is no end-goal. We are just humans, being.