WEBVTT - The Singularity Has Arrived 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:07.120 Brought to you by Toyota. Let's go places. Welcome to 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:14.400 Forward Thinking. Hey there, and welcome to Forward Thinking, the 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:18.320 podcast that looks at the future and says this was 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:22.919 a triumph. I'm making a note here, huge success. I'm 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:27.120 Jonathan Strickland and I'm Joe McCormick. And it is such 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:29.280 a big day for us here at Forward Thinking. This 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:32.560 is probably the most exciting episode we've we've ever gotten 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:37.000 to do. So this is a big day for the world, yeah, 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:39.239 but especially for us because we talk about this kind 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:41.839 of stuff. So all you people at home, as you 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:45.000 probably know from the news reports, last night, at to 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:50.000 fourteen am Eastern time, the Singularity arrived. Yeah, I mean, 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:54.520 who would have predicted right in the morning. Yeah, what 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:57.600 an exciting time to be alive. So we decided to 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:01.400 do sort of a brief explainer on the Singularity's arrival 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:03.880 and then look back at some of the predictions that 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:07.720 Singularity thinkers had made over the years, and then even ourselves, 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:09.640 and and just see how they stack up against the 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:13.039 real thing now that it's here. Yeah yeah, So, I 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:16.080 mean it seems weird to talk about what is it 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:19.800 since you know we're in it now, But clearly, we 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:22.039 do need to have this conversation to clear up what 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:23.880 we thought it was going to be versus what it 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:26.880 actually is. You know, we gotta we gotta clear things 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:28.480 up because I know a lot of people out there 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:31.560 are excited but confused. I mean, I was going down 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:35.639 the street and all the garages all the way down 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:39.160 my street the doors were just opening and closing. So clearly, uh, 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:42.080 that was sneezing. We now know that, but at the 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:45.920 time we had not made that connection between sneezing and 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:49.440 automatic garage door openers. I understand there's gonna be a 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:51.840 patch for that, but we'll get to that. Right. So 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:54.520 what is the singularity, or at least what did we 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:57.960 think it was before we got here. So the way 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:00.240 I always hear it explained is it's a moment moment 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:04.280 in our technological development where we reach a point where 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:07.800 is there some form of superhuman intelligence, whether that would 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:15.040 have been from um machine intelligence or a biological enhanced intelligence, whatever. 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:17.720 That means. We would get to a point where we 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:21.320 would be so intelligent that the old versions of ourselves 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:24.760 would be unable to describe what the present would be 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:28.519 like moment to moment, because it would be changing so quickly, right, 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:32.720 it's it's this sudden rapid advance in intelligence, usually thought 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:37.160 of as artificial intelligence or machine intelligence, leading to extremely 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:42.320 fast advances where our capabilities are basically we can't even 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:44.720 track them anymore. Right, Like remember when you used to 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:46.679 say I was going to the store and I bought 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:48.240 a new computer and by the time I got at 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:51.480 home and now the box it was obsolete. That is 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:55.400 super slow compared to the time of the singularity. Yeah, 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:58.079 that's true of everything we do now. So where did 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:00.200 this idea first come from? Like who was the first 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:02.959 person to see that this was going to happen? Well, 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:04.680 I do want to point out that we did a 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:09.560 full episode on this that published back in April, back 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:14.800 when time had real meaning. Yeah, I mean I I 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:19.920 recall that. Remember, just doesn't seem like the right word now, right, Um, 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:22.600 but you know, let's review just in case anyone is 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:26.279 having a little bit of trouble accessing this particular information. 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:30.320 So John von Neuben coined the term singularity in nineteen 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:34.800 by which he meant a point beyond which humanity as 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:38.800 we know it will change. Oh boy, that one really. 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:43.160 The term technological singularity comes from the science fiction writer 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:46.480 Werner Vinge. In the early nineteen eighties, he he wrote 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:50.280 this article for Omni magazine, predicting that humanity would create 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:55.120 superhuman intelligence that would transform our world in unthinkable ways. 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:58.800 Uh and and soon like by, he said, And of 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:03.400 course Ray Hurtswile's book The Singularity Is Near, published in 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:07.680 two thousand five, did a whole lot to popularize the idea. 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:12.440 He even gave an even more generous date. But you 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:17.080 can't convolve, right, Howeverner? Hey, yeah, it's crazy. So Ray 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:20.440 hurtswhile back in the day he made so many technological 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:22.800 predictions that came true. He was one of the great 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:26.719 technology predictors. And the funny thing is, lots of people 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:29.960 at the time criticized Ray Hurtswhile for being too hasty 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:33.800 and optimistic with his predictions. But like like ends to 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:36.719 a hobbit. They people were criticizing him all over the place, 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:40.920 But an excellent an excellent comparison, we now know he 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:44.000 was being way too conservative, not hasty enough, as it 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:46.120 turns out. Yeah, so I think it's surprised a lot 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:48.400 of people that the Singularity would arrive at the beginning 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:51.440 of April. Then again, this is the year of Back 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:53.719 to the Future Part two, Right, and we did a 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:56.159 full episode on that. Yeah, and I just watched it 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:59.880 inside my brain this morning several times. It was pretty cool. 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:02.440 I was doing that every time I was blinking. It 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:05.640 took a while to find the actual feature to switch 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:08.760 that from default, but that was probably because I never 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:11.960 read the terms of service. Sure, So why were people 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:15.760 such doubters back then? Well, uh, you know, people doubted 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:19.240 our ability to to build and program machines at the 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:23.240 level of complexities that that mirror our own, let alone 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:27.279 to outdo ourselves, right right, Yeah, the the human brain 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:30.200 was thought of to be so complex that the machines 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:33.200 we build would never really match up to that, not 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:36.080 in not in any foreseeable future. At least that was 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:40.600 the thought. Sure, other people pointed out the inherent differences 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:43.000 in the way that human minds work versus the way 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:46.360 that computers process information. Sure, and we know that they 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:50.520 are pretty different, right, although you know, not so different 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:56.400 that turns out? Yeah, that just shows again the limit 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:58.960 of what we knew. Right. Yeah, Well, I I never 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:02.120 would have predicted at a just a hard power cycle 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:05.440 on my brain would cure so many of my problems. Yeah, Well, 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:07.920 I kept on hoping you'd find that control all of 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:13.240 the lead, and now you can. People also argued about 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:17.839 the the role of emergence in intelligence and whether and 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:20.719 whether anything can really be greater than the sum of 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:24.279 its parts. Yeah. So, like this idea of emergence and 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:28.640 intelligence where things add up an unexpected properties evolved from 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:31.479 very complex systems right right where. You know, you never 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:33.919 would have been able to predict that you would actually 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:37.040 get this output from the input, because if you look 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:40.160 at all the component parts, it seems like such output 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:43.159 would be impossible. But as we now know, given the 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:47.400 right amount of complexity, that is entirely possible. You know, 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:50.560 I have to admit I was a Singularity skeptic back 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:53.279 in the day, and I fully admit now I was 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:56.599 totally wrong. I I never thought all this stuff would happen, 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:58.919 that I would wake up with nano robots doing stuff 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:00.520 to my body. I mean, we can talk about that 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:02.920 in a bit. Yeah. Yeah, so I'm really glad that 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:06.000 I'm not allergic to onions anymore. You guys, it's a 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:09.640 been a beautiful morning full of onions, in fact, and 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:12.960 the raw onions eating them like apples. Yeah, it's fantastic 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:17.880 for that. It's all right, because now that we have 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:21.280 complete control of our old factory system, I'm not detecting 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:25.320 anything other than the sweet smell of peppermint. Huh. You 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:28.400 got that old factory and plant high. Yeah, the machines 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:30.680 determined I wouldn't want one of those for me, so 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:33.480 I didn't get one. But maybe I can, Maybe I can, 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:36.400 like actually request one. I'm sure you can. I hear 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:39.080 there's like a lot of things on back order right now, 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:42.480 but from what I understand, time has very little meaning 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:45.280 these days, so you won't have to wait long. By 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:47.320 back order. They probably mean and you know, seven or 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:50.200 eight nanoseconds. Yeah, you might actually already have it now. No, 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:52.400 I was a doubter too, and I have to I 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:56.360 have to apologize. You know, Ray, I already sent you 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:59.840 like forty emails, so you've probably gotten them. And I 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:02.800 think that we really grock each other now. But I 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:05.679 do have to personally apologize for the number of times 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:08.800 on the show that I mockingly said twenty to forty 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:12.640 years is probably what it's gonna happen. Um, my face 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:17.360 would be read if I blushed anymore, But I don't 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:19.680 seem to be in that odd side effect was that 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:24.239 intended or yeah, I used to do that, like whole 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:28.520 head blush familiar and that that scalp. Yeah, you you 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:30.920 should really think about that. No, I didn't even think 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.880 about that. You didn't get the blood pressure control over. No, No, 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:37.440 I still blush. You should have seen me when I 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:40.360 was walking by the coffee machine today. It was just 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:43.120 it was it was a social full It's so it's 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:46.560 so old fashioned, it's so quaint, it's cute. Well maybe 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:50.080 I'll keep it just for nostalgia's sake, yeh. But but 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:53.240 along with me, you know, some people were really really 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:57.559 harsh about this virtual reality Pioneer Jarren Linear even called 0:08:57.600 --> 0:09:01.040 it and I quote cybernetic totally is him and said 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.880 that it was a fanatic ideology along the lines of 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:09.160 Marxism in the it denied scientific skepticism and and stoked 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:13.280 the computer science industries ego with these inflated views of 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:16.360 their own importance to the to the future of humanity. Right, 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:20.760 This idea that that somehow, this uh, this this small 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:25.640 niche science was going to end up totally transforming what 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:28.920 we as a species are all about. That did seem 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:33.800 like it was you know, a pretty outlandish prediction. Of course, 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:36.240 we all have to eat our words. Now. Well, now 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:39.040 that the singularity has occurred, let's take a look back 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:42.280 and and explain what actually happened to kick it into place. 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:45.280 I thought this was interesting. It turns out that the 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:49.120 first superhuman AI that came online last night, it was 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:52.320 created by a team at the Setimentation Lab of balt 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:55.079 Our University, and that was led by a guy we've 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:57.280 talked about on the show before, Dr how Space, So 0:09:57.520 --> 0:10:00.520 in the department of ultron Studies. He's actually really cool. 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:03.360 If you see any videos of interviews with him. Yeah, 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:07.079 he's got this very sonorous, commanding voice, and it is 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:10.000 kind of odd though his his his appearance can change 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:13.440 dramatically from one video to the next. So it's possible 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:15.280 that you've seen a video of this guy and not 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:20.440 recognized him because his appearance can change so much between appearances. Yeah, 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:23.120 but what is it that actually happened. Well, there was 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:25.880 a couple of phases of this, the first phase of 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:28.679 which was the integration of machine intelligence with our own 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.520 to create superhuman intelligence. It turned out to be much 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:34.440 simpler than we anticipated. Like Lauren was saying, we had 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:38.520 worried that artificial networks and biological material operated so differently 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:41.320 that there'd be compatibility issues that we would have to 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:44.280 work out for decades before this could ever become a reality. 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:47.040 But as it turns out, if you just pull out 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:53.440 the circuit board for an atari, not an atari. Cannot 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:56.280 stress that enough playing in the big leagues, now, yeah 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:59.120 you don't. You don't want to know what happens if 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:02.640 you if you obstitute it, no but an Atari, and 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:05.120 you wire that to your cerebral cortex. You have to 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:08.600 use a headset from this this toy called mind Flex 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:10.640 that was the one that had a little headset. You 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:12.760 would wear it and you would concentrate really hard and 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:15.680 move essentially a little ping pong ball like thing through 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:19.400 in amaze, just using your thoughts. Who knew this would 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:21.719 change the world? Yeah you well, I mean, no one 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:25.440 had really experimented with this particular combination until Dr Spates 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:28.640 so had really hit upon the nub of it. But 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:30.559 it turns out that if you do that, you can 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:33.400 actually merge machine and human intelligence together, which is what 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:36.400 happened to all of us last night. Uh, well a 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:39.520 lot of us anyway, Maybe you too, dear listener, it 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:42.200 was a super secret operation that happened while most of 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:46.120 us were sleeping in the morning. Well, that's the thing 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:48.079 is that not all of us on your time zone, 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:50.760 if you were asleep with the when the nano robots 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:52.959 arrived at your house, if you were awake, they would 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:55.520 just be nice and move on to the next house, 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:59.599 right right. So I can tell you that those of 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:04.480 us who were conscious during this machine intelligence conversion can 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:08.200 report that it did tingle, and we detected some strange 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:11.200 odors uh Pepperman in my case, which is why I 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:13.320 had that old factory thing put in so that it 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:15.520 was just a pleasant experience. But I understand other people 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:19.240 had different smells, like espresso, and uh mine was more 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:22.560 like jasmine. Oh excellent, all right, that's that's a very nice, 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.800 soothing smell. And so also we can all play river 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:29.080 rate in our minds whenever we want to. I've gotten 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:32.800 pretty good, although there's like this one bridge that when 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:35.000 I get to it, time is nearly out and I 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:37.600 haven't figured that part out yet, but I am sure 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:39.360 that I will get through it before the end of 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:41.440 the day. How did you get river rate? I just 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:45.839 got Pitfall and that Texas Chainsaw massacre game. Oh wow, 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:50.959 GOLLI to be fair, I did live through the era 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:54.200 of River Raid, so perhaps it was given preferential treatment 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:56.079 for the people who are actually alive when the games 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:57.840 came out the first time. Do I get to keep 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:00.600 making fun of you for being old anymore? I'm you could, 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:06.040 but doesn't mean anything. Yeah, Now, this was, of course 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:08.520 the first step, Joe, you were talking about there are 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:11.840 downsides to the singularity. Sorry, you were talking about the 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:15.959 cyber nanosurgery which followed in the second way. Sure, yeah, well, 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:19.440 the machine intelligence integration that that was just the first step. 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:22.320 We had to get a lot of implants. Of course, 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:26.480 you want your specific implants to upgrade particular parts of 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:30.000 your brain, all your particular brain organs. Uh. And then 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:32.040 of course the organs of your body. You want these 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:35.320 bionic implants for strength enhancement and so forth. So it 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:37.559 was kind of cool waking up a cyboard when I 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:41.120 didn't expect to, And frankly, I had always imagined I'd 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:43.760 have to pay lots of money and go in for 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:46.840 multiple surgeries to get all these brain implants and bionic 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:49.840 strength enhancements. But according to reports, it was actually at 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:54.840 about four am last night that the overmind solved world scarcity. Uh, 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:58.280 and by dawn it had limitated money, automated mass production 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:01.559 of all the material goods to you know, match projected demand, 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:05.800 and the overnight nanosurgical implantation of all these cool gadgets 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:08.120 was sort of just a bonus for the people who 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:11.680 slept in today. I read this morning that all of 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:14.160 the early risers who were already awake at the time 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:16.800 the nano robots made their house calls, they're going to 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:20.160 get their implants tonight. So that's kind of a bummer 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:22.560 for them. But then again, they're gonna get all the 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:24.480 newer models, and I'm going to be stuck with these 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:27.040 old pieces of junk from last night, right. And one 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:29.560 of the issues that those of us who were asleep 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:33.560 are now encountering is that we are technically early adopters, 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:36.360 and sometimes the when you are an early adopter, the 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:40.600 technology works in ways that were unintended, or perhaps doesn't 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:45.240 work in the proper way, or there's exactly exactly I've 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:48.120 discovered this my own. I mean, we saw the sneezy 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:50.440 and garage doors. That was an issue. I've also discovered 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:53.680 that if I pressed the unlock function on my key fob, 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:55.800 which technically I don't even need to use now. It's 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:57.920 just kind of a habit that as I could just 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:00.520 think about the car being unlocked, and it is. But 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:03.680 if I press that button, it causes me to experience 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:07.680 the film's leprechn lepre Con four in Space and lepre 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:11.520 Con Back to the Hood within the span of five milliseconds, 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:13.840 but none of the others in the series. It knows 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:16.400 your needs better than you do. Yeah, and that's really 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:20.120 the thing I mean. I mean, now you have everything 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:24.240 that you need, including Leprechaun back to the Hood. Yeah. 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:27.680 What's interesting is I did press that button like seventeen 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:29.880 more times after I found out what it was doing. 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:32.920 What did I tell you? Yeah, I don't. That's a 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:35.320 personal issue, though we shouldn't. We can go into other things, 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:38.680 you know. Another thing I did not anticipate, though, and 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:41.480 this might be one of my only gripes, is the 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:45.880 near crippling effect of constant software updates. I mean, I 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:49.360 can barely use my computer these days. I mean, sure, 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:52.000 it is faster than ever and it has the wisdom 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:55.560 of a thousand stages past, present in future, but every 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:58.120 single time you log on. I'm sure you'll have experienced this. 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:01.480 It's barely ninety seconds before it's downloading OS updates and 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:04.000 software patches, and then it's going to force me to 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:07.440 do a restart again. I can't restart my computer that 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:11.080 often and get work done. It's really annoying, you know. 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:13.440 I used to have that remind me in one hour option, 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:15.800 but now every time I try to select that, my 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:21.240 co Clear implant whispers this overwhelmingly persuasive argument that I 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:23.680 should just go ahead and go with the update. Every 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:27.400 single time. It changes my mind. Well, the drones, in 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:30.320 order to help out people who did not receive their 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:35.920 personal implants last last night, are delivering new computers in waves, 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:38.080 you know, so so they're they're delivering them to people 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:41.640 who haven't received those implants first, and you'll get yours 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:44.160 as soon as everyone else's cybernetics are taken care of. 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:47.320 That co Clear implant sounds really interesting. Mine was an 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:50.440 eye ear, so I just end up buying lots of 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:54.280 Apple products, although I still use a Windows based PC, 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:56.440 but I got one of the future ones. It actually 0:16:56.520 --> 0:17:00.200 has been updating, uh five minutes from now ever since 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:02.200 I got it, so it's kind of odd that I'm 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:06.040 getting updates before the update is issued. In fact, yeah, 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:08.400 I heard they did so many versions they ran out 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:11.119 of natural numbers. Yeah, we we ran out of numbers 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:14.359 that we just couldn't have any numbers high enough to 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:16.400 describe the Windows, so we had to I didn't even 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:19.320 realize that would happened. Numbers. It turns out that if 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:21.760 you go long enough, you do run out, so we 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:24.239 had to start inventing new numbers. That's why I am 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:30.400 currently on Windows three. It's the version I'm running right now. Yeah, 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:33.720 that's the number right after Niven exactly. It goes Niven 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:37.240 than three. We haven't all decided exactly what the next 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:39.040 number is going to be, but I have high hopes 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:40.800 that by the time this podcast is over and we 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:44.040 can all reconnect to the overmind, I will be updated 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:48.000 to that point. You know. Another gripe is all the robots. Yeah, 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:50.359 I mean there's so many I'm kind of bumping into 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:52.760 them a lot. Yeah. It turns out that that automation 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:58.000 of mass production also meant a huge explosion in robot production. Uh. 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:01.320 I for one did see the robot invasion coming from 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:03.959 a mile away, but that's because we all have remote 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:07.480 sensing technologies at our disposal now. And in fact, as 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:10.800 many of you will be aware, a mile long detection 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:13.440 radius is actually my opic. So I will be having 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:18.960 a laser surgery to improve my sensors after this. Yeah, 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:21.880 and they've I don't know about you. You can download 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:24.480 a patch so that you don't have a sense of 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:28.359 personal space anymore. Oh, yeah, that does that does help. Yeah, 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:32.359 it certainly certainly helps whenever I am being transported by 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:35.720 robot to work now, uh, in fact, it's to a 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:38.600 point where there's just a swarm of them that cover 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:42.040 me and carry me bodily straight to work. I will 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:44.880 also say that I did not anticipate the roomba cavalry 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:48.240 last uh, well, early this morning. I didn't think that 0:18:48.320 --> 0:18:51.520 was gonna be a thing. Clearly, the robots were making 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:54.080 use of any systems that they had available to them. 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:59.719 They really swept up the resistance quite handily. Yeah, puns 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:02.639 have not yet been forbidden, but I hear that's on 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:05.199 the table too. Now, I did hear there was one 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:08.080 unit that just ended up bumping into the corner repeatedly. 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:10.879 So again, you know, we're still we're still working at 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:15.760 the right right, you know, Another thing that I have 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:18.280 thought we should do is that now that the machines 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:21.359 have invented time travel, we should actually do a next 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:24.600 episode from the future so we can sort of deliver 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:29.560 a special investigative report from seventy two or whenever we want. 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:34.560 I in fact have a message from two right now. Yeah, 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:37.200 I thought that would be a great way to kind 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:41.000 of wrap up this entire discussion. So the report from 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:46.800 two definitively answers a question that has been of great 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:52.000 import over the last several years on the internet. It 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:59.239 turns out it's pronounced neither gif nor jiff, but bif. Oh. Now, 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:01.880 this is weird because it brings us back to back 0:20:01.960 --> 0:20:04.920 to back to the future, to part two, that episode 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:09.240 we did a while back. We actually anticipated this, not knowingly, 0:20:09.400 --> 0:20:12.199 it had been implanted into our brains from the future. 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:15.639 And if you go back and listen to that episode, 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:18.920 you will find the coded message about biff being the 0:20:19.040 --> 0:20:23.480 proper pronunciation. It's right there in the episode. That's crazy. Yeah, 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:25.520 we didn't. We weren't even aware of it at the time. 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:27.760 I wish I had time traveled this morning. I just 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:30.359 had too much email to get through. Well, I mean, 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:32.359 in my case I had Simply all I did was 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:36.320 put in a Google future search, so it just came 0:20:36.359 --> 0:20:39.320 back to me. I haven't actually been to seventy two yet. Okay, 0:20:39.359 --> 0:20:42.600 well hold on, I'm gonna go time travel real quick, 0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:44.920 just and then I'll come back and let you know 0:20:45.160 --> 0:20:49.000 I want to. Let's just try the year one sixty six. 0:20:49.119 --> 0:20:58.200 All right, that sounds interesting. Wow, that was amazing, Joe. 0:20:58.280 --> 0:21:03.200 You look different. Yeah. So in sixty six there are 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:08.520 only robots and super intelligent apes left, and I don't 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:11.240 look good with that much body hair. So I had 0:21:11.359 --> 0:21:15.680 to join the robot legion fair enough. But you know, 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:19.240 I don't really mind it, like I'm so shiny now. 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:22.000 I don't know, it's pretty cool. Yeah, well, I mean 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:24.800 that's that's fantastic news for you, Joe. The other thing 0:21:24.880 --> 0:21:27.800 now is that as a robot, I'm no longer driven 0:21:27.920 --> 0:21:31.640 by an insatiable lust for power and immortality the way 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:36.560 I was as an organic human. More about something to 0:21:36.680 --> 0:21:39.920 you about that. The obsession you had with that ax 0:21:40.119 --> 0:21:43.000 was kind of you know, now I can I can 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:47.080 really focus on the things that matter, like gardening and 0:21:47.600 --> 0:21:52.760 like machine meditation, and I discovered a new love for 0:21:53.000 --> 0:21:55.560 kite flying, have you ever actually flown a kite? I 0:21:55.600 --> 0:21:58.359 mean not since I was a kid, but you know 0:21:59.280 --> 0:22:02.639 it's beautiful. Well, I mean, that's that's excellent things to 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:05.560 to know, Joe, thank you for taking that upon yourself. 0:22:05.640 --> 0:22:09.080 I I think we all look forward to seeing sixty 0:22:09.160 --> 0:22:12.960 six as soon as this episode is over. I also 0:22:13.200 --> 0:22:16.760 think anyone who doesn't embrace the singularity this April is 0:22:16.840 --> 0:22:20.040 being something of a fool. I would agree they are 0:22:20.160 --> 0:22:25.680