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At least some human beings manage to produce new human beings that are at least approximately Pareto improvements by using a well chosen training set. There is

• idiotsecant 4y ago
  I think we already had a biological singularity! Many of them in fact! I think it's just likely that we were the final biological singularity. I think a lot of the time we think of singularity as 'the point at which the rules break because evolution of some parameter is infinite" but I think really what this term means is the point at which current rules are incapable of predicting the evolution of the system, resulting in an apparent infinity. That infinity probably is not physically meaningful, but it might as well be from the point of view of an actor before the new rules are known. When we evolved from ape-ish things capable of only the most primitive communication into things capable of transmitting complex information about our world across generations we hit a rate of technological growth that might as well have been a vertical line compared to the previous history of life on earth. When single-cellular life managed to capture mitochondria and unlock incredible chemical energy reserves that was another similarly vertical line in the complexity of life. I'd say our history is a series of singularities that only look like gradual progress from the point of view of our own pseudo-infinity. We are a step in the process of the universe understanding itself but we aren't the last step, it would be silly to think so, given what we know about past leaps in the entropy creation rate of life.