[marktangotango]

Interesting viewpoint, a couple of thoughts. Please consider the role of the largest bull market in history when judging your success. Many people have made this mistake, myself included.

Your example of singularity indicator is very Hollywood-esque. When i consider what an ai system would have to do to first determine who to target in such a scenario is much more illuminating. There are many paths to the singularity and strong ai, not all them involve software running on hardware, human augmentation and group minds being two. Your scenario may very well be possible today, though not desirable.

[SirLJ]

Thanks for the points, I have been trading trough 2 bear and 2 bull markets and back tested a lot more, so I have this one covered until the AI arrives :-)

For the my singularity scenario, it is just an example, but I do think it will come form the military, just like the jet engine, the digital photography, the internet, the gps... only this time around it might not be the US military complex, which can make it even more dangerous... in the end we all know what is most likely to happened when we meet more advanced civilization, especially home grown and "infected" with the "human dna" (greed, fear, etc)