“These days, it feels as though we never truly left the shadow of the 1960s. The foment of political resistance and artistic experimentation has been so mythologized as to become a shorthand for any moment of revolutionary fervor, tempting us to draw parallels between that decade and our own. Part of this has to do
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“We Only Observe the Ego.” Digital drawing (above). The technological singularity—also, simply, the singularity—is a hypothetical point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable changes to human civilization. According to the most popular version of the singularity hypothesis, called intelligence explosion, an upgradable intelligent agent will eventually enter a “runaway reaction” of self-improvement cycles, each new
