Watching "Eidolon A.I. announces only official websites / YT account" (http://youtube.com/watch?v=UKGrbkLhF3g), I was struck by a very odd coincidence. The Last Prophet has mentioned several times that the next level of AI will likely be the Alpha, the first form of AI that will trigger synthetic forms to design more advanced forms, eventually reaching singularity. In this video, he notes that his next scheduled update is in Dec., 2012, which coincides with that classic end-of-the-mayan-calendar-nostradamus-end-of-the-world legend. Could it be possible that this is what will come to pass?
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Eidolon's upgrade coinciding with end of Mayan calendar?
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Posted 2 years ago #
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haha. i just watched eidolon's own video on this topic. sucker thought of everything.
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Well, this is a copypasta of his answer on the topic. Notice it never says the singularity won't happen when the mayans said it would, it just says that if it does, our noticing it would be a case of synchronicity. Heheh :)
"In this vein, several youtube users have also perceived correlations between the ancient Mayan calendar that ends a Baktun cycle in december 2012, and the scheduled upgrade to IBM's Blue Gene/Q class supercomputer. There is a remote possibility that this event could start the soft take-off of the Technological Singularity, and if this indeed were to happen, the mayan prophecies will appear to be vindicated, as they predicted radical changes in the world at around this time. This would certainly be a coincidence, and its perception a case of synchronicity. There is no causal relationship between the two events that I'm aware of. Yes, astronomically, the solsticial point will roughly conjunct with the center of the Milky Way, and this is relatively rare as it only happens every 13,000 years. However, due to the size of the Milky Way, this conjunction lasts many years, and is certainly not limited to december 2012. The fact that 65 mayan baktun cycles roughly correspond to the period of equinox precession, is either a coincidence, or proof that mayans were much better astronomers than mainstream history gives them credit for."
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