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Suolucidir t1_iyducrc wrote

Literal 'singularity' would mean we all merge and become one with the sub, just as we become one with everything else.

But that's not really what most of us mean by 'singularity'(not that I'm the authority on it, or can even succinctly define it myself).

So it's just going to continue on, discussing the various stages of our journey toward literal 'singularity' as we approach but do not not actually arrive at that point - like an asymtote.

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RequiemOfTheSun t1_iydz34e wrote

I don't believe your concept of a literal singularity is related to the concept of the technological singularity. I think the term is derived from a space time singularity, an object with an event horizon beyond which we can't see.

Used to refer to the moment machines are self improving exponentially at such a rate that we can't predict what's on the other side of it.

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Suolucidir t1_iye1rab wrote

I see what you mean. It's not entirely unrelated - an example of such an object is the theoretical mass at the center of a black hole.

From inside the black hole, it is theorized that everything is substantially 'singular' - as in literally pulled into a singular high-density mass for which the gravitational forces are so great that they even pull in light and generate the event horizon that we perceive from the outside.

The way this relates to a technological singularity is that a sufficiently advanced AGI will theoretically access/interpret/monitor/design? all other technologies, creating a technologically 'singular' entity/ecosystem/whatever we call it at that point.

My comment was just to emphasize that the boundaries of what a 'singularity' is are very fuzzy, so while the sub may eventually agree that AGI exists to fulfill the general definition of a technological singularity, at the same time (i think) we will always be identifying technology not yet joined to that singularity. Eventually, we may even pivot to discussion of an extra-technological singularity as well.

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