What strikes me as odd about apocalyptic &quot;the perils of the singularity&quot; navel-gazing is that we automatically assume that machines, and ONLY the machines, will improve far beyond our capabilities - perhaps even infinitely.<p>Why shouldn&#x27;t we improve as well?  Every day it seems there is a new story about further advances in amazing &#x2F; fast &#x2F; cheap &#x2F; etc. gene splicing technology, or some new breakthrough in understanding how cancers work, or how longevity may be achieved, or how to correct color-blindness, etc.<p>Is it any less presumptive to assert that humans will make ourselves more and more amazing, as it is to assert that machines inevitably will?