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Sci-fi author Vernor Vinge, creator of the tech singularity concept, has died at age 79. (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Human brain is not very efficient. It just barely made efficient enough to start civilization - it did not have time to evolve within civilization to become more intelligent. Think about how more intelligent we would be if we were to continue evolving in the same direction of smart civilization builders for another million years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Okay. If anything that makes it more likely will with have some huge intelligence jump