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Juergeb Schmidhuber predicts the “Omega point” of technological development (including AGI) to be around 2040

The MIT Limits to Growth study predicts the collapse of global civilization around 2040

https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/z3xw3x/new-research-vind...

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This is my feeling as well, that the rise of AGI conveniently coincides with the end of the world. I find it demoralizing because so many trends look just like that, where solving the ultimate problem results in the destruction of the context in which the original problem resided.

dqpbOP3y ago

Indeed, once you start down the path of technological development, you enter a race between exponential progress and exponential resource consumption.

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