Life in the Singularity

Life in the Singularity

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Matt McDonagh
Jul 12, 2025
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Of all the bets ever placed in the history of this planet, the wager on a creature like Homo sapiens was the longest of long shots.

It was a trade so audacious, so contrary to the market fundamentals of the natural world, that any sane biological investor would have dismissed it as a crank’s fantasy. The market, for 3.5 billion years, had favored sensib…

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