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My recollection is he always says it happens around 2045 so some of us may be living. I'm not sure he defines what it is very clearly though.

I've got a personal definition involving stuff you can get done per hour of human labour. When robots can do it all with zero human labour that goes infinite so you get a proper mathematical singularity.

> there is no way that the singularity as promised will occur within our lifetimes.

There are a lot of problems that won’t fully materialize during our lifetime but are nonetheless worth worrying about and mitigating.

And every day I walk, I get closer to the horizon.

I think we might be past the horizon short of possibility of our own self-destruction.

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That's probably more accurately how I look at the singularity, actually. The singularity is ever receding.

You mean immortal life in digital heaven will not come true in 5 years?

> You mean immortal life in digital heaven will not come true in 5 years?

Only for those who don't believe in Kurzweil.