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Strongly disagree. As our abilities to store, process, and generate information about our reality advance, stagnant epochs will surely become shorter and sparser as we approach what ultimately represents the so called singularity. Innovation continues to accelerate, and humans are already developing novel computing technologies and architectures to surpass the limits of current designs.

The rates of technological and scientific development have arguably been increasing since the dawn of mankind[1]. I figure if we see any major progress in life extension in the next 50-80 years, there's a nonzero chance that some people alive today may live long enough to effectively acquire some form of immortality.

1.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerating_change



> Innovation has arguably been accelerating since the dawn of mankind

The left half of any logistic curve looks just like an exponential.




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