Singleton
Bostrom, Nick (2004) The future of human evolution, in Charles Tandy (ed.) Death and Anti-Death: Two Hundred Years after Kant, Fifty Years after Turing, vol. 2, Palo Alto, California: Ria University Press, pp. 339–371.
Bostrom, Nick (2004) https://www.nickbostrom.com/fut/evolution.htmlThe future of human evolution in Charles Tandy (ed.) Death and Anti-Death: Two Hundred Years after Kant, Fifty Years after Turing, vol. 2, Palo Alto, California: Ria University Press, pp. 339–371.
Bostrom, Nick (2006) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singleton_(global_governance)What is a singleton?, Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations, vol. 5, pp. 48–54.
Wikipedia (2010) https://www.nickbostrom.com/fut/singleton.htmlSingleton (global governance), Wikipedia, May 16 (updated 4 December 2020).
A singleton is a world order in which there is a single decision-making agency at the highest level. The singleton hypothesis is the hypothesis that Earth-originating intelligent life will eventually assume the form a singleton.
The concept of a singleton expresses an abstract idea. A singleton could take the form of world government, such as global democracy or global totalitarianism, but this need not be so. What is required for humanity to constitute a singleton is for it to behave roughly like a coherent agent.[1][2]
Wikipedia (2010)Bostrom, Nick (2014)Singleton (global governance)Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 104–107.Related entries
global governance | macrostrategy
Bostrom, Nick (2014)
WikipediaSuperintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies,May 16 (updated 4 December 2020).Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 83.Ord Toby (2020) The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, p. 397.