UAP and the Singularity

The following is my speculation on the increasing emergence of evidence for the extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH) of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) and how it might relate to what I see as the approaching technological singularity event.

Photograph from Department of Defense / AP

All of human history will someday be seen as a selection process that gave birth to the first Earthly artificial general intelligence (AGI) and the resulting technological singularity event.

Intelligent biological life is unlikely to persist on a cosmic timescale. The universe is simply too volatile and inhospitable to biology of the sort we are familiar with.

At some point, relatively soon after the singularity event, I believe we will effectively become post-biological — probably in a manner similar to that described in the transcension hypothesis — and move into “inner space” (that is, we will move outside of our universe, in a sense, and into a preference-optimizing simulation).

At this point I believe we will join a galactic or intergalactic community of post-biological or synthetic biological entities. A community whose scout probes — that is, what we call UAP (most likely AGI-controlled von Neumann probes) — are probably already here in anticipation of the emergence of our singularity event.