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Originally Posted by durkadurka33
A fallacy of extrapolation. Just because there has been an exponential growth in the past, therefore it will continue this way into the future. He's aware of this, too. But that's not my main problem with his argument: it's that it's passed off as a scientific hypothesis but it's unfalsifiable.
I wasn't sure if he extrapolated the rate of growth so much as he extrapolated the kinds of technologies that would likely exist in the future based on current technology. It would be a fallacy only in the former case, which, if he did, would be a dishonest mistake on his part.
Come to think of it that would make the entire concept of the technological singularity a faulty idea, if it were based solely on that fallacious reasoning. Or maybe I'm overlooking something...