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> (Also, why don't Singularity advocates know about sigmoids?) They think the curve goes so far up the y axis before it flattens off that it might as well be e
by flir 4y ago
> (Also, why don't Singularity advocates know about sigmoids?)
They think the curve goes so far up the y axis before it flattens off that it might as well be exponential to us monkeys stuck at the bottom of the slope.
- ben_w 4y agoWhile I think this, I have definitely seen at least one attempt to argue that progress follows a doubling time itself regularly halves and will actually reach infinite “real soon now”. I also see, as a common trope, people talking about “the knee of the exponential”; as they clearly don’t know how the exponential function works, I have no idea what they think.
- flir 4y agoOh well that's just nuts. Can't help those guys.