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Donald Trump Is the Singularity
The U.S. has the equivalent of a dynamic neural network running its government.
Hasta la vista, baby.
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There’s been some controversy over when Donald Trump decided to run for president. Some say it was at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, when he was roasted by both Seth Meyers and President Obama. I think it happened much earlier: August 29th, 1997, the date that Skynet became self-aware.
Skynet is the artificial intelligence in the 1984 James Cameron movie “The Terminator.” Its original purpose was beneficent: Make humans more efficient. But once it became self-aware, it realized things would be much more efficient without humans altogether.