{"id":240232,"date":"2026-07-03T10:03:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T15:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/the-singularity-is-a-story-not-a-prison-philosophy-portal-interview"},"modified":"2026-07-03T10:03:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T15:03:26","slug":"the-singularity-is-a-story-not-a-prison-philosophy-portal-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/the-singularity-is-a-story-not-a-prison-philosophy-portal-interview","title":{"rendered":"The Singularity Is a Story, Not a Prison: Philosophy Portal Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After 300+ interviews on Singularity. FM, I ended up on the other side of the microphone.<\/p>\n

Cadell Last invited me to Philosophy Portal and asked the questions that go all the way down. How a Bulgarian army nickname became \u201cSocrates,\u201d and why it started as an insult. How 300 resumes and one failed job interview accidentally started Singularity Weblog. And why, after 17 years of studying the technological singularity, I believe its biggest prophets got the most important thing wrong.<\/p>\n

Ray Kurzweil is a genius and a genuinely humble human being. I\u2019ve interviewed him and spent hours in his office. But his six epochs of the singularity converge into a single storyline where the universe literally wakes up. That is creationism in scientific clothing. It promises the same heaven of immortality and abundance, and it treats humanity as the chosen species.<\/p>\n

Silicon Valley\u2019s version is no better: the march of technology is inevitable, unstoppable, and there is nothing you can do about it.<\/p>\n

That is not a prediction. That is a prison.<\/p>\n

I grew up behind the Iron Curtain in Bulgaria. I watched the same technology build socialism in the East, democracy in the West, and fascism before both. The big choices are never technological. They are ethical, which is to say political.<\/p>\n

Continue reading \u201cThe Singularity Is a Story, Not a Prison: Philosophy Portal Interview\u201d | ><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After 300+ interviews on Singularity. FM, I ended up on the other side of the microphone. Cadell Last invited me to Philosophy Portal and asked the questions that go all the way down. How a Bulgarian army nickname became \u201cSocrates,\u201d and why it started as an insult. How 300 resumes and one failed job interview [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1493,269,2018,6,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-enforcement","category-life-extension","category-ray-kurzweil","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}