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I didn't even realize - I hope my consciousness is uploaded with 64 bit integers!
You’ll regret this statement in 292 billion years
I think we’ll manage to migrate to bignums by then.
The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday
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#22This is a very interesting read, but I wonder if anyone has actually any ideas on how to stop this from going south? If the trends described continue, the world will become a much worse place in a few years time.
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#23>That's a very different singularity than the one people argue about.
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I wouldn't say it's that much different. This has always been a key point of the singularity
>Unpredictable Changes: Because this intelligence will far exceed human capacity, the resulting societal, technological, and perhaps biological changes are impossible for current humans to predict.
It was a key point that society would break, but the exact implementation details of that breakage were left up to the reader.
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#24The meme at the top is absolute gold considering the point of the article. 10/10
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#25"I could never get the hang of Tuesdays" - Arthur Dent, H2G2
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#26why is everything broken?
> the top post on hn right now: The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday
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#27Damn. I had plans.
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#28This is delightfully unhinged, spending an amazing amount of time describing their model and citing their methodologies before getting to the meat of the meal many of us have been braying about for years: whether the singularity actually happens or not is irrelevant so much as whether enough people believe it will happen and act accordingly.
And, yep! A lot of people absolutely believe it will and are acting accordingly.
It’s honestly why I gave up trying to get folks to look at these things rationally as knowable objects (“here’s how LLMs actually work”) and pivoted to the social arguments instead (“here’s why replacing or suggesting the replacement of human labor prior to reforming society into one that does not predicate survival on continued employment and wages is very bad”). Folks vibe with the latter, less with the former. Can’t convince someone of the former when they don’t even understand that the computer is the box attached to the monitor, not the monitor itself.
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#29> I am aware this is unhinged. We're doing it anyway.
If one is looking for a quote that describes today's tech industry perfectly, that would be it.
Also using the MMLU as a metric in 2026 is truly unhinged.
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#30Great read but damn those are some questionable curve fittings on some very scattered data points
In other words, just another Tuesday.