The Real Singularity

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Ever since the dawn of the computer age there has been a technological movement to advance the idea that one day artificial intelligence will be smarter than humans and by definition two things will likely emerge in that dystopian future:
 
1. Humans will have to merge with computers to remain a viable species
2. Technocracy (as opposed to Democracy) will be the political framework.
 
I call this future dystopian because it is a future without love, compassion and feeling.  It is a future based on zeros and ones and is a cold hearted rational approach.  For example, computers may determine one day that there are too many humans to safely inhabit the planet.  Or that humans are a parasite on planet Earth.  The logical conclusion of that is extermination.  One could easily imagine an extermination plan – we’ve witnessed it before with industrial scale, but now try to grok what it would look like under technocracy.  And carried out by robots where there is no appeal to humanity.
 
Too crazy?  Outrageous?  
 
Not really.  
 
Computer targeting “solutions” without a human in the loop are already a part of Pentagon protocols.  A girls school with 180 souls was bombed in Iran as part of Trump trying to control Iran.  Oops?  Not our fault.  The computer made the decision.  Hegseth, head of the so-called Dept of War, declared that there will be no limits on what the pentagon can do with AI.
 
Like it or not we are now in a technological race with machines for our very survival.  Futurists debate whether there will be a split between mandatory fusion with machines or merely biological upgrades … OR … whether “regular”  humans will become obsolescent.  There’s three lousy choices.
 
FYI Neuralink, an American tech company, is already working on a brain-chip interface.
 
We are in a very dangerous place.  Ray Kurzweil, in his book The Singularity Is Nearer, predicts that by 2030 brain-computer interfaces will allow people to plug their neocortex directly into the cloud.  A terrifying thought.  Who knows what computer bug might get uploaded into your brain.  That virus won’t be DNA or RNA but a source code chosen by someone else and it could have you thinking thoughts that are not your own and acting on ideas planted there by Meta or Musk or Gates or ABC.  If you thought FOX NEWS was programming people this is on a whole other level.
 
So what is the REAL Singularity?
 
As a Christ-Based Quaker, I’d say that singularity has to do with our ability to merge with the spirit of Christ.  If you find that language offensive or can’t relate, just put in the Spirit of love.  Either way it relates to a merger of a different kind and has these characteristics:
 
1. It is based on freedom
2. It is based on love
3. It is based on connection with and feeling for other humans
4. It puts logic second and humanity first
5. It creates space for diversity of thought and diversity of action.
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The real singularity grows out of quiet, discernment and connection to both spirit and each other. It is based on that intangible spiritual nature of humanity.  The part that so many of us are disconnected from.
 
The odd thing is that it is so easy to connect. No special techniques required.  The spirit of creation, of God, is all around us and imbues the living world with fantastic creativity.  Open your eyes. One only has to look!  Observation is the fastest way to God.
 
Goethe, for example, did not view God and Nature as two separate entities. He fused the terms Gott-natur (God and Nature) to describe this singularity.  And … are we not nature?  Not a part of it, but nature itself; that is fully integrated and a part of the whole? 
 
This sacred wholeness is what Goethe called the “garment of God” or the direct expression of the living God. 
 
Where does sacred observation lead?  
·      To wholeness vs separation
·      To integration vs. fragmentation 
·      To abundance and bounty vs scarcity

I woke up this morning and saw a gaggle of turkeys with their little pullets in tow walking across the lawn and then they came upon two rabbits also having their breakfast of clover and no one ran – there was enough of everything for everyone. 
 
This is the thinking we must adopt to survive because the AI models are based on limitation and not-enough.  Human-Christ Singularity / Human-Love Singularity offers so much more. 
 
Take a look around!!!  

~ Joseph Olejak