GOLEMA XIV prognoza rozwoju ludzkiej cywilizacji a typologia osobliwości technologicznych
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.24917/20841043.13.1.05Słowa kluczowe:
convergent singularity, existential risk, existential singularity, forecasting singularity, posthumanism, superintelligence, transhumanismAbstrakt
The GOLEM XIV’s forecast for the development of the human civilisation and a typology of technological singularities: In the paper, a conceptual analysis of technological singularity is conducted and results in the concept differentiated into convergent singularity, existential singularity, and forecasting singularity, based on selected works of Ray Kurzweil, Nick Bo-strom, and Vernor Vinge respectively. A comparison is made between the variants and the forecast of GOLEM XIV (a quasi-alter ego and character by Stanisław Lem) for the possible development of Homo sapiens civilisation. According to the prediction, the scientific and tech-nological progress is to bring humanity to transfer its civilisational primacy to a nonhuman superhuman intelligence xor a posthuman one. Both scenarios are best described by forecasting singularity, yet all variants are applicable only conditionally. As GOLEM did not undertake, the trajectories may also intersect or combine.