Funny how the ones telling us "AGI next year" are the ones selling it.

Yeah, but fatalism is self-fulfilling prophecy if you stop fighting.

I certainly agree that they'll try, but I'm trying to hope for the best while preparing for the worst. I have plenty to be depressed about already, lol.

That's what happens when you're selling a product (AGI/ASI) that doesn't exist yet.

That's just a more interesting story than prosthetic limbs that bring full functionality back to the victims of tragic circumstances. At least as far as Hollywood is concerned.

It only creates a class divide if we don't work hard to make it affordable for regular people.

Both. If it goes right, all of our problems are solved. If it goes wrong, we all die. That's why it's a singularity.

That said, it's much farther away than the people selling it want you to believe.

I'm trying to be Adam Jensen from Deus Ex, but I'll settle for less pain.

I think the combination of transhumanism and VR will soon render gender obsolete.

Ready Player One demonstrated this even though Ready Player Two then showed how the author missed his own point.

My robo-genitals will be plug and play, lol.

Sci-Fi is often a predictor or even inspiration for future technologies.

Arthur C. Clarke described communications satellites and 15 years later when they were implemented NASA even named their orbit The Clarke Belt.

TASER is an acronym for Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle, based on a novel...