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I am sure you're familiar with the University of Chicago "Doomsday Clock", so: if you were in charge of a Funsday Clock, showing the time until positive singularity, what time would it be on? Any recent significant changes?
(Idea of Funsday Clock blatantly stolen from some guy on Twitter.)
Probably a few minutes to midnight. That's usually what these clocks say.
Not futurism: marketing - and transparently so. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists are more famous for their DOOM clock than they are for anything else.
If a negative singularity rules out any positive singularities, wouldn't a Funsday Clock be superseded by a Singularity Clock?
Well, a negative singularity would belong on the Doomsday Clock. Actually, that might be the proper way to think of it: turn past midnight meaning negative, past noon meaning positive. It'd imply a scale, too.