Jedi believe in the Singularity

http://www.kurzweilai.net/forums/topic/after-the-singularity-will-we-wake-up

For those too lazy to read the thread;

The OP asks something to the tune of "Once we reach the singularity, will we awaken from life's great dream?"

To which another replies something to the tune of "Get off the hash pipe, your ideas are shit."

He then hijacks this thread to publish his "theories" on... well, from what I gather, the Force. He linked to a youtube video of a box with a piece of paper balancing on something, and claimed he was moving it with his mind. The box was there "to prevent externalities". Someone asked if convection currents or percussive forces could have caused the movement. His response was "No, that's what the box is for"

Now, I'm not a physicist by any means, but I know bullradish when I see it; he honestly told someone who had a legitimate philosophical question that they were on drugs, then proceeded to spout his theory about space time and other jargon (I'd classify it as New-Age monism), and even went so far as to say outright that "psychics work".

Anyways, the point; Why does it seem like most advocates of the Singularity are quacks? The idea is sound, it'll happen eventually, as long as we don't succumb to some sort of freak Act of God or something, so why are Kurzweil's forums filled with so many of these... "Jedi"?

 

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Because that forum is where threads like this belong.

 

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Says the guy who believes in self sustaining cold fusion because he saw a video that said so.

 

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The one thing about the human mind is it's capacity to take the "Positive Good Points" and apply them in our real world environment. The other thing about the human mind of course is attempting to distinguish "Reality from Fiction". So you end up with some people taking a heroic stance based upon a fiction hero/anti-hero with the inability to distinguish that those "Positive points" albeit a moral metaphor to aid in our day to day lives, an instead see them as an actual reality.

In the case of "Transhumanism" the problem has been the description of what it is and how peoples views and perspectives polymorphic to be all sorts of exotic and absurd "virtual realities".

What is Transhumanism to me.... Well it's the concept that we "Humanity" are ever having to adapt to our ever changing technologically enhanced environment. While some think this is a new thing, it's not, in fact you could say at least as far back as Marconi and Tesla, Transhumanism is been amongst us, since we live in a world surrounded by radiological matricing which itself is un-natural in origin. No one can remember what it was like without the radiowaves in our environment, we've all been born into it and don't even acknowledge it, assuming that it is apart of the background. (Incidentally this means everyone on the planet is a Transhumanist, there is no escape.)

In the essence of "Jedi-ism" you have to component factors, one being a person is moved beyond their dull mortal bounds to fall for the aesthetical and fantastical world of Starwars and attempt to "bridge" fiction and philosophical reality together, the other is they are a lightsaber wielding troll paid by Jaba the Hut to keep everyone pre-occupied and away from a Singularity.

 

The "singularity" concept is illogical to begin with, a paradox at best.