The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday
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The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday
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Re: The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday
#2Love the title. Yeah, agents need to experiment in the real world to build knowledge beyond what humans have acquired. That will slow the bastards down.
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#3Fortuitously before the Unix date rollover in 2038. Nice.
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#4> Polynomial growth (t^n) never reaches infinity at finite time. You could wait until heat death and t^47 would still be finite. Polynomials are for people who think AGI is "decades away."
> Exponential growth reaches infinity at t=∞. Technically a singularity, but an infinitely patient one. Moore's Law was exponential. We are no longer on Moore's Law.
Huh? I don't get it. e^t would also still be finite at heat death.
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#5"I could never get the hang of Tuesdays"
- Arthur Dent, H2G2
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#6> Polynomial growth (t^n) never reaches infinity at finite time. You could wait until heat death and t^47 would still be finite. Polynomials are for people who think AGI is "decades away." > Exponential growth reaches infinity at t=∞. Technically a singularity, but an infinitely patient one. Moore's Law was exponential. We are no longer on Moore's Law. Huh? I don't get it. e^t would also still be finite at heat death…
exponential = mañana
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#7Fortuitously before the Unix date rollover in 2038. Nice.
I didn't even realize - I hope my consciousness is uploaded with 64 bit integers!
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#8Love the title. Yeah, agents need to experiment in the real world to build knowledge beyond what humans have acquired. That will slow the bastards down.
Perhaps they will revel in the friends they made along the way.
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#9> The pole at ts8 isn't when machines become superintelligent. It's when humans lose the ability to make coherent collective decisions about machines. The actual capabilities are almost beside the point. The social fabric frays at the seams of attention and institutional response time, not at the frontier of model performance.
Damn, good read.
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#10> Hyperbolic growth is what happens when the thing that's growing accelerates its own growth.
Eh? No, that's literally the definition of exponential growth. d/dx e^x = e^x