My singularity
My own, internal, subconscious perception of the singularity boils down to this: at some point, everything will converge into one highly unpredictable moment, and after that, everything will either be radically different, or there will be nothing at all.
Like, I'll be simultaneously dying of old age just as some mega-cures for eternal life are popping up; we'll simultaneously discover some mega-useful things while some cataclysms are right on the verge of destroying everything; and a super-smart intellect will either wipe us all out or elevate us to a whole new level. Or, say, I'll finally figure out how the world works, and at the very same time it'll turn out we're all in the Matrix, or that all of life is a simulation, or a game, or whatever. All of this happening all at once—coming to a head—that's the singularity.
Though maybe it won't happen that way for me personally, it just feels like that's exactly how it's going to go down.
That being said, I'm not really talking about the end of the world or death here. I see the singularity not as an end, but as an event horizon—past that point, it's just completely unclear what comes next, and it's hard to prepare for it. As for ends of the world, I feel like they get predicted super regularly, at least every 12-15 years or so. I even remember when there was all this talk about how "Mikhail the Marked" would come, and how this was supposedly prophesied everywhere as an absolute sign of the end times. And man, Gorbachev with that birthmark on his head really threw fuel on that fire. Just as much as Y2K or the ending Mayan calendar. And so here we go again.
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