Why hasn’t New Eden had the Singularity?
So we have rogue artificial intelligences, uploaded consciousness, functionally immortal transhumans, faster-than-light communications and travel that invalidate everything we know about causality… why hasn’t New Eden experienced the Singularity?
These sorts of advances should enable exponential growth in science, technology, and mathematics. For example, a sentient drone that can link to others in a hive mind (massively parallel consciousness) should surpass a normal (non-enhanced) human in terms of its ability to upgrade itself or create improved versions, and in fact capsuleers should do something similar to that. After all, once humanity can bypass the biological limitations and start to implement quantum computing architectures and instantaneous, limitless storage, we can do things that those of us stuck here in 21st-century Earth cannot even begin to extrapolate: the Singularity.
So, has CCP avoided any steps toward this due to balance considerations (think Sleepers with the Luminaire Titan stats and Deep Blue game theoretical intelligence) or just haven’t given this much thought? As first steps to this, I’d like to see more content related to rogue drones as well as capsuleers getting involved in implant research and production. A rogue drone epic arc or more development of the Society of Conscious Thought would really hit the spot, too. I’d really welcome ISD Mercury members reaching out to me (even in their semi-anonymous state) about this topic, too.
Can you guess where my next fictional arc (not the Friday stuff) will go?
UPDATE: Go read Kaarbak’s counter-argument. I have to think about that one for a bit.