I’ve known of the singularity since 2014, but joined the subreddit maybe 2016 but back then I didn’t really use Reddit. But as mobile platforms became widely more available in the last few years I’ve been using Reddit way more. It’s a daily site for me to check now. But I have waves of optimism filled with waves of pessimism. Sometimes when I scroll through YouTube looking up videos about technological progression, it saddens me to see people bringing up biblical bs like the singularity is the mark of the beast. Not that it affects me but as we have seen, a huge chunk of the US (where I live) is religious and will use their platforms to try to suppress technological progression. I.E. trying to convince people the vaccines are dangerous when it single handedly allowed us to escape the pandemic and I’m an ICU RN and seen firsthand how much death occurred from that virus during the pandemic. So I believe my biggest fear about technological progression is it’s own suppression by irrational individuals that try to create policies to suppress innovation. Don’t get me wrong, I am a strong advocate for safe technological use and research. However, to claim anything is demonic because they don’t understand technology is extremely annoying to me. I also find it quite annoying because as time moves on, I know the ones who are speaking out against our innovation will be the ones who use it in the future.