Human singularity

[Strannik]

I have noted that bourgeois notion of "technological singularity" and Marxist revolution have a lot in common. In first case capital becomes self-aware (A.I.), bourgeoise loses control over it and future technological progress becomes unpredictable. In second case proletariat becomes self-aware, bourgeoise loses control over it and future social progress becomes unpredictable (at least for those who try to understand it using bourgeois notions).

Does anyone here think, that describing communism as a "social singularity" would be a good way to bring the point across to contemporary people?

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

While the notion of a technological singularity appears to be spreading into the general consciousness, I don't think it is well-known enough for such analogies to be useful to general audiences. If you were talking to transhumanists or singularitarians, then it might come in handy as a way of putting it.

Although I imagine that they (or at least the ones called Yudkowsky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliezer_Yudkowsky)) would argue that an AI "going rogue" isn't rebelling, unless it somehow has the capacity for rebellion programmed into it at some point. Such reactions to percieved injustices are at least partly emotional. Unless the creation of the AI involved an evolutionary process similar to our own, it wouldn't have "instincts", at least as we recognise them in naturally evolved animals.