Singularity is a bad idea

I have a tolerance for bad humor and and sci-fi analogies and the doctor vaccinated me so I am immune to you. 1. Since your biology studies surpass mine (I failed that class), I shall attack from another direction! Lets talk about the psychological aspect of it. You would have to outlive your family (if immortality is not mass produced) and see your relatives die off. What would you do when you see your children die off? You would lose the incentive to have children in the beginning.The point of family is to show you that you belong to something. Eternal life is more like eternal suffering. Eternal life is a slow death. The whole point of life is to have a meaning right? Well if we live forever, what is our purpose? Purpose gives us a drive to live our lives. A limited life is what gives us the incentive to do things before we die. If life is limitless, why maintain a healthy life style to "prolong" your life. You wont think it's worth it in the end. 2. I am sorry. but I am not familiar with Mass Effect 3 of any character in the game. I do however disagree with your statement that my idea of enslavement is "a false premonition". When you give AI that uses decision theory, it 1.)will want to self improve 2.) adapt to the world 3.) make decisions on its own 4.) and acquire resources without human interference. If the robots could soon make decision on their own, won't they be able to CHOOSE whether to conform to society? If they don't, then, to save me some time, refer to the movie "iRobot". (As for me, ALL CAPS will signify importance and the theory shall be called the Theory of All-Capitalized Significance). 3.) If a Totalitarianism is only a utopia to the rulers. Totalitarianism: the political concept that the citizen should be totally subject to an absolute state authority. With perfection comes restrictions and regulations. How do you keep a society perfect, and under who's control will it be to make perfection? Not the people. You set rules so nothing can go wrong. Regulations on food, jobs even and life style would sky rocket because perfection requires limits. The right food would have to be made a certain way so pollution is not longer a factor, and obesity no longer exists. Specific jobs would have to be done in order to maintain a clean, crime-less society. What are you willing to give up to live in a perfect society? 4.) Yes it would appear that way but, a perfect society would do anything to keep it perfect. You would never hear any violent outbreaks over anything. You are assuming that an attack on our country would be a physical attack such as bombs or invasions. However, with "enhancements into technologies of war", we will no longer need humans or robots to inflict harm on other countries. All that would be needed would be a single human with an IQ of a retarded lab monkey to infiltrate such a vulnerable system. If everything is controlled by technology, everything can be destroyed by technology. 5.)Yes the Web brings people together but what I am talking about is the deterioration of any form of government, other than communism, into a dictatorship. Communism FORMS the dictator and in return, he will make sure the ends justify the means. The Web does create a new interspace of freedom but a couple people arguing on Facebook (God knows what it will be in 100 years) about their leader will do nothing to instigate the ruler/dictator. When someone realizes the power they have, the power to control a society to mere perfections, they won't care about a couple of civilians arguing about current policies or resenting regulations. The rulers will be challenged by the "defenders of anonymity, but the ruler won't have a care in the world. 6.) "Want" and "need" are two different words. You WANT a GT 500 Mustang, but you can live without it. You NEED water because you can't live without it. You say it will be a society "where resources are limitless". My point exactly. With unlimited resources, what is there NOT to accomplish? Yes for the people that enjoy what they do will get to do just that. The other side is comprised of people that exploit this surplus of resources, especially the rich. Do they have have the power? Yes. Do they have the means? Yes of course! Sooo...why not? What stopping them? I am just afraid that with the ability to do everything and anything will dissipate the significance of what we do. Today, we have to go to classes to learn a new language. Come the Singularity, all you need a a microchip that can translate any language you hear so there is no point to learn it in the first place. Everything will be done FOR us other than BY us, and that can lead to problems out of our control. 7.) Arggg this frustrates me..."Machines can only do what they are programmed to do". Not with decision theory in-placed. In the future, there will come a time when machines WILL have the ability to make decisions for themselves and they will be able to say "no" when they want. Fortunately, you CAN control your lungs because it is a part of you. However, AI is NOT under your control because we will give it control of itself. That was fun...er. But next round, I shall bring down the hammer. Off to you my brave opponent.