This is way out of context.

This is from a subsection of my book that assumes someone gives you a magical scroll that contains numerous predictions that come true and a prediction that a singularity will occur in 2045. This was obviously a thought experiment about how you would behave if you somehow knew there would be a singularity in 2045, not an assertion that the singularity will happen in 2045. Indeed, I used the scroll device so the reader wouldn't think I was predicting there would be a 2045 singularity.