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RE: The Sudden Decline of War
o i didn't know it was a book lol. heard the concept in a youtube, and a lot of its aspects make sense.
i dunno...we might not experience this particular singularity in our lifetimes, but i think there's a chance we do hit some singularity (singularity in the general sense, not the transhumanist one.)
although, i'm a little surprised you don't think it could happen soon? i mean...even just 20-30 years is a long time for technology to develop...we just got beat in "Go" this year--that was our most complex board game! :( once they take starcraft, we might as well start kneeling and pledging our fealty to them.
Yeah, at this point it's become a theory (in the scientific sense) so it's pretty common knowledge. But it was The Selfish Gene which first proposed it as a hypothesis, much like On the Origin of Species did for natural selection.
Oh, I meant speciation - that happens gradually. As for singularity, that is happening very soon! I'm willing to bet by 2050 we are deep into it.
It should be made well known that Richard Dawkins coined the word "meme" in the Selfish Gene, and that's back in 1970s!
Yes, I'd also wager that 2040-2050 we'd be quite deep into it already, or at least some parts of society.
Here's the passage from The Selfish Gene -