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Originally Posted by malloyd
Note that this is specifically not a vision of a goal, or of what it's like, but an assertion they have (and cannot have) any idea of what the state beyond that is. Singularity proponents using the term at all seriously are not only not expressing a vision, they are saying that "ultimate vision" is *impossible*.
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That seems curiously like Marx's assertion that after communism was achieved, and the state withered away, it would be impossible to predict what people would do next, as they would have the freedom to choose the history they wanted.