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The thing that makes the singularity so difficult (edit: to rein or reason about), compared with say development of the nuclear weapons, is that we know it will
by elromulous 4y ago
The thing that makes the singularity so difficult (edit: to rein or reason about), compared with say development of the nuclear weapons, is that we know it will be a positive feedback system.
So at some point, the point of no return will be passed, and we will have no idea that we passed it.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoThe AI singularity is also an entirely speculative scenario straight out of sci-fi. For some reason, many AI doomers are talking about it like it's not only something that is well understood, but also pretty much an inevitability. The truth of the matter is we don't even know if it's possible. In general, unbounded exponential growth is extremely rare in nature. It's common in physics, but only as a result of looking at low order approximations. I honestly think when the dust settles, the smartphone will still have had more impact on society than LLMs. If people knew in 2009 what was coming, they'd be freaking out like many people are today.