Hmm, if the idea of a doomsday machine doesn’t make you flinch from the whole Singularity concept, then OK, it may not be that bad. However, given the 19th century explorer on the foreground, looking at the city, looking forward to the future it represents, I doubt we could suppose one purpose of this image is to warn us about existential risks.
Plus, there’s still the part where we use magic that (i) were given from above, and (ii) is way beyond our strength. It makes us pawns, while we’d probably like to be the Chess Masters. It is something to be wary about, but less obviously so. One could get the idea that Luke supports the idea of creating a god which, a bit like Yahweh, “kindly” dominates us all. Luke probably do support a form of Singleton, but I’d bet on something like “laws of physics 2.0″ instead of something more… personified.
Hmm, if the idea of a doomsday machine doesn’t make you flinch from the whole Singularity concept, then OK, it may not be that bad. However, given the 19th century explorer on the foreground, looking at the city, looking forward to the future it represents, I doubt we could suppose one purpose of this image is to warn us about existential risks.
Plus, there’s still the part where we use magic that (i) were given from above, and (ii) is way beyond our strength. It makes us pawns, while we’d probably like to be the Chess Masters. It is something to be wary about, but less obviously so. One could get the idea that Luke supports the idea of creating a god which, a bit like Yahweh, “kindly” dominates us all. Luke probably do support a form of Singleton, but I’d bet on something like “laws of physics 2.0″ instead of something more… personified.