Submitted by thecoffeejesus t3_11b5vs6 in singularity
Sandbar101 t1_j9wv37a wrote
Reply to comment by Kennybob12 in People lack imagination and it’s really bothering me by thecoffeejesus
Very well said and exceedingly accurate
thecoffeejesus OP t1_j9xocuk wrote
I agree, and I want to add that it’s the idea that we just fundamentally can’t really grasp what could happen, the scale or the speed, that means that this thing is so wildly, uncontrollable that it’s kind of overwhelming.
Because I think of it like this:
With the technology that we have today, a kid, 10 years from now, will be able to create stuff on their mobile phone in a similar way that we can emulate an Xbox on the iPhone and play games like Halo.
But EXPONENTIALLY more powerful.
Yes, I know there’s limits.
But we don’t know what those limits are.
We just can’t.
It’s like a grasshopper trying to understand an airplane.
They both fly, but in a completely different way.
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