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Robert C Culwell's avatar

This was good ✨⏳💫 👩🏻‍💻

Cars and automatic transmissions are still basically just magic.....🔔 🕰️ ✔️

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Matthew Harris's avatar

Modern day magic

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Robert C Culwell's avatar

CRISPR-Cas9 is off the hook! ✂️🧬🔬🧫🩸🧪

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Matthew Harris's avatar

💪💪

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Robert C Culwell's avatar

🛢️⚙️🧰🧭 Directional Drilling is sorcery,

Material Sciences are alchemy & witchcraft.🪄🔮

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Robert C Culwell's avatar

Thanx

Plenty to ponder.....⚡🤖🏁

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Matthew Harris's avatar

Thanks for reading! Happy weekend

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J.K. Lund's avatar

Great work, Matthew.

I've always understood the singularity to be a single point in time, but perhaps it isn't? Perhaps, as you say, it's a series of s-curves? I would love to explore this topic in greater depth.

In a prior essay, I described the Industrial Revolution as an "Smokestack Singularity" because, by many metrics, literacy, wealth, GDP, energy capture, etc, there was exponential growth in so many arenas of everyday life. Perhaps the Industrial Revolution was just one of the first in a series of ever steeper S-curves?

This has some serious implications for how we should anticipate the events of the next five years, which are shaping up to be quite dramatic.

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Matthew Harris's avatar

Yes this would be my take, is that the singularity isn't a single point in time, and neither is AGI. It will be a slow progression until one day. We often overestimate the change in 2-3 years and under estimate the change in 10 years once the technology is properly diffused. Thanks for reading as always

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J.K. Lund's avatar

Yes, that's Amara's Law, correct?

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Matthew Harris's avatar

Correct 🤝🏼

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Steve's avatar

It will be interesting and exciting. When the robots and ai data centers can fix or build themselves, then we are in trouble.

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Matthew Harris's avatar

What about then they can repair on-prem servers? 😂

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Robert C Culwell's avatar

Accelerate and Sustain! 🏆🏁↗️✨

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