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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 7766079" data-attributes="member: 58172">I hope humans today understand how disruptive technological acceleration is.It is pointless to use the current technology that we are familiar with today, to talk about hypothetical alien species that can be thousands, millions, or billions of years more advanced than us.Many scientists (including the prominent Kurzweil at MIT) predict that a home computer will be about as intelligent as a human in roughly year 2025. (Just seven years away.) Computers that are more intelligent than us, will be creating their own computers, whose technology we are literally not intelligent enough to be able to understand, in roughly year 2045. The equivalent of a home computer is expected to be more intelligent than the entire human species put together. We humans will either artificially ‘upgrade’ our own brains via implants or genetic engineering, or else be left behind − uncomprehending and noncontributing to the ongoing discourse.This curve of technological acceleration relates to Moores Law but extends to other technologies as well. The current technologies, including the processing power of supercomputers, are still on track and continue to plot out according this predictive curve.More than technology being more powerful, the intelligent species oneself will be vastly, vastly, more intelligent.Unless, we humans are the first.</blockquote>