Singularity Club
Singularity Club
"The First Rule of Singularity Club, is that you don't talk about Singularity Club."
"The Second Rule of Singularity Club, is there is no Singularity Club."
There are occasional rumours, on the edge of the Hacker Underspace. When you ask people who should know, the usual answer is "How could you tell?".
Singularity Club, if it did exist, would be concerned with existential threats to Fenspace, and all known sentient beings. The headline threat is a runaway Singularity, which if it can occur, almost certainly, sooner or later, will do so. Singularity Club might be enthusiastic about the 'later' option.
There are some incredibly powerful AIs in Fenspace. You'd expect them to be more involved in things, seeing as they think orders of magnitude faster than humans. And humans, they manage to get their fingers in everything, even running "Plains Ape 1.0". Do AIs ever seem distracted? Are they just playing an AI-speed MMORPG? Singularity Club might be one answer.
You might be concerned that everything depends on the benevolence of handwavium. You might be concerned there is no Plan B. A Singularity would likely suck-in all sentient beings in the Solar System. For sentience as we know it to have a Plan B, if the Singularity fails in some way, there must be a functional culture outside it's short-term reach. Somewhere beyond the Solar System.
So, this might be one reason why nanotech is taking so long to arrive in Fenspace. This might be one reason superintelligent AIs just seem to think like humans, only faster. This might be one reason...
SfX: *FLASH*
What was I saying?
The use of neuralizers by representatives of Singularity Club cannot be confirmed or denied.
META: Emily was one early AI, with at least superhuman intelligence, and potentially access to as much processing power as she wanted, and could find power supply and cooling for (without advancing Global Warming too much). She was tasked to "fix the world", and a basic part of her nature is to fix things for people which are broken. She was also tied into the virtual world via "TRON", which is an abbreviation for the command "Trace On", implying an imperative to find out what was wrong there. Emily hasn't surfaced in the early history of the Hacker Underspace – what might she have been doing with her time?
