Without further information, I must assume that means 1 in 7 people will die, which means there is a 1⁄7 chance that EY will die (and a similar chance for each of us), which would do great harm to hopes of a positive singularity.
To put it another way, not only is there the issue Mitchell mentioned (that everyone will be focused on disaster recovery), but there is a reasonable chance that anyone who ever cared about, or even thought about, the Singularity would all be dead. And if not dead, much more likely not in a position to do Omega’s work, processing power be upon it (PPBUI).
Without further information, I must assume that means 1 in 7 people will die, which means there is a 1⁄7 chance that EY will die (and a similar chance for each of us), which would do great harm to hopes of a positive singularity.
To put it another way, not only is there the issue Mitchell mentioned (that everyone will be focused on disaster recovery), but there is a reasonable chance that anyone who ever cared about, or even thought about, the Singularity would all be dead. And if not dead, much more likely not in a position to do Omega’s work, processing power be upon it (PPBUI).
Whoops, I guess I missed the “today” part.