Forum Overview :: Biohazard: Code Veronica :: Senor Barborito MetaFilter Post

[quote name="Senor Barborito MetaFilter Post"]Freen, I'd like to believe that you're right but I get this sinking feeling that between lack of advancement in software engineering methodologies, near abandonment of artificial consciousness research, slow development of post-fossil energy sources, overpopulation (should plateau at 11.5 billion), intellectual property legislation, and gradual natural selection against intelligence that nobody now living is going to make it. The classic transhumanist argument against this was that life extension through medical means would be sufficient, but amazingly the aging baby boomers have not produced the promised explosion in geriatric medicine targeted at aging both physiological and neurological/psychological, which was the one real hope of anybody now living for seeing any sort of singularity event in light of the above factors. posted by Ryvar at 7:31 PM PST on March 2 [/quote]