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Shamar @Shamar

The has nothing to do with or .
It's not about , but about .

We will reach the singularity when everyone will be an , able to , and .

Turn all to , if you want and .

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@Shamar
I thought singularity was all about 1 / 0

@Wolf480pl @Shamar

If you are saying that the 'singularity' is not a well-formed formula I am inclined to agree. :)

@hhardy01 @Shamar
I'm saying that a "singularity" means an edge case, a situation where our equations stop working. f(x) = 1/x has a singularity at x = 0.
General Relativity has a singularity inside a black hole.
The C language has a singularity at null dereference.

@Wolf480pl @Shamar

There's a black hole singularity in classical General Relativity but not in the Einstein–Maxwell–Dirac equations.

@Shamar @hhardy01
I'd expect there'd be a continuous function that'd show how much unexpected thigs happen as the percentage of hackers in the population increases.

@Shamar @hhardy01
So we should see interesting stuff happen at eg. 10% of population being hackers. And that IMO is a much more achievable goal.

@Shamar @hhardy01
Tbh, 1% would be a great achievement.

But here's the thing:
I expect that there'd be some people who are not hackers because nobody showed them how to.
And then there are people who don't even want to be hackers.

After converting the first group, further increasing the percentage would get much harder I think.

@Shamar @hhardy01
I think what you're saying is kinda obvious, and orthogonal to what I'm saying.

@Shamar @hhardy01
what I meant is:
1%, 10% and 100% goals now all seam like it'll take ages to reach them.
However, I suspect that we may hit a glass ceiling of sorts, somewhere between 1% and 100%.
But even then, there will be enough hackers to make a difference, and to change the way society is organized.
So maybe we will not need to reach 100%.

@Shamar @hhardy01
maybe having a hacker in your family will be enough?