Should we call them “Reset event”?
A possible name for the pending radical simplifications of a bunch of economies. Software libraries reset to 1/100 of the surface area. (webpack -> ??) Banks reset to 1/100 of the revenue. (Coinbase vs Citibank) Etc. People use the word "singularity" but I wonder if a better word for this is a "reset event".
Other examples: preppers, various religious end-of-days types, the Trump people... all talking about some kind of reset event.
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[ 2.2 ms ] story [ 15.4 ms ] threadNone of those apply, except that some people want such a catastrophic event to occur, so might consider it a 'correct state'.
Similarity, I think it would be wrong to characterize the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event as a "reset".
What's wrong with "a catastrophic event"?
I think the "singularity" you refer to is the one described at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity , most broadly interpreted as "Some writers use "the singularity" in a broader way to refer to any radical changes in our society brought about by new technologies such as molecular nanotechnology"
I don't see how it can be applied to 'religious end-of-days types' or 'Trump people'.