There's No Singularity—It's a Cargo Cult

Technocrats and Their Unethical Fantasies Belong to Be Locked up in a Mental Hospital

The technological singularity, often simply called the singularity, is a hypothetical event in which technological growth accelerates beyond human control. It’s like believing that we can build a perpetuum mobile so great that it starts giving people infinite wealth and energy. I.e., it is a belief in God.

We’re never going to travel to other stars, not even to the nearest one, Proxima Centauri. If we could fly there at light speed, it would take about four years there, and four years back. At present technology levels, however, it would take at least 60,000 years to get there. Elon Musk primarily invented xAI (Grok) to help invent better spacecraft engines—because human physicists appear incapable of advancing spacefaring technology. But even if we focused on the Moon and Mars first, the energy logistics simply don’t add up.

To carry cargo into space, you will need a rocket big enough to get it off of Earth’s gravity. The greater the cargo you wish to carry, the more the costs of the rocket and its fuels will increase exponentially. So there’s going to be an optimum: there will be a certain optimal size of spacecraft, cargo bay, and rocket where the fuel and operating costs will match the best sizes for a single trip.

And let me tell you something: That mathematically optimal size isn’t anywhere near good enough to make repeat space hauls economically viable, unless there’s oil on Mars (there isn’t). Even exploring our local solar system will prove to be a cost so high that humanity will not care to bear it. People promoting star travel and space fictions as a new religion for people to “believe in” are dangerously unethical technocrats.