alt Hacker News> whether the singularity actually happens or not is irrelevant so much as whether enough people believe it will happen and act accordingly.
I disagree. If the singularity doesn't happen, then what people do or don't believe matters a lot. If the singularity does happen, then it hardly matters what people do or don't believe (edit: about whether or not the singularity will happen).
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cgannett • yesterday at 6:40 PM
if people believe its a threat and it is also real then what matters is timing
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sigmoid10 • yesterday at 6:42 PM
Depends on what a post singularity world looks like, with Roko's basilisk and everything.
Negitivefrags • yesterday at 6:41 PM
> If the singularity does happen, then it hardly matters what people do or don't believe.
Depends on how you feel about Roko's basilisk.
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I don’t think that’s quite right. I’d say instead that if the singularity does happen, there’s no telling which beliefs will have mattered.