Rise of the machines Last week I wrote about the Fermi paradox (if there is intelligent life besides us in this universe, then where are they?). As I explained in that article, there are several explanations for the paradox and one of them is that these outer civilizations are so weird (from our current perspective) there’s no way to interact with them. One of the people that believe in this theory is Vernor Vinge, a mathematician, computer scientist and science fiction author. In 1993 he wrote an essay called “The Technological Singularity”, in which he argues that exponential growth in […]
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