Niko LaamanenFounder, Publisher at Konsensus Network

The #Future of #Science #Fiction: Navigating Uncertainty Beyond the #Singularity #podcast

7 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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In this podcast excerpt, the speaker argues that the concept of a technological singularity—where an AI surpasses human intelligence—renders the future fundamentally unknowable because humanity lacks the capacity to predict post‑singularity developments. This epistemic uncertainty, the speaker claims, has undermined the relevance of classic science‑fiction narratives, many of which were written in the 1950s and contain outdated cultural attitudes such as misogyny and casual smoking. The speaker views this mismatch between an unknowable future and retrograde storytelling as a problem for the genre.

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I agree completely. And there's been an argument that the singularity on, you know, where there's an artificial intelligence that's greater than human intelligence, the future's unknowable beyond that point because we're just not smart enough to understand how things would progress at that point. And some people have argued that that's killed science fiction, that some of the classic science fiction, it feels like the 1950s in space, right? Where they're, you know, smoking cigarettes and being very misogynistic and whatnot in a way that Seems very backwards already to us, yet let alone it's supposed to be set in the future. And so I think that is a problem.

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