Stripe says "the singularity" has begun

(axios.com)

6 points | by psychanarch 10 hours ago ago

3 comments

  • ChrisArchitect 9 hours ago

    Asked on an earlier thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49365594) if this was even real. Why isn't it hosted on a stripe asset server like other investor letters? Axios never links sources, so who knows where this came from?

  • smalltorch 9 hours ago

    What exactly does that even mean?

    • AnimalMuppet 9 hours ago

      It means change so rapid that we can no longer understand it.

      And if you say "I don't see that", then the response is going to be either "the future is already here, it's not just evenly distributed", or else that you just don't understand what you're seeing. That is, this is a claim that is impossible to refute, since any evidence against it gets dismissed out of hand.

      The other possible meaning is that we have reached a point where AI is self-improving, and is improving itself at a faster rate than humans could, and the rate of improvement is itself increasing. Proving that (or even disproving it) would take some agreed-upon way of measuring how good AI is at any point in time. So again, a claim that is impossible to refute, since you cannot gather meaningful data.

      If it doesn't mean either of those things, then it is just a vague, meaningless claim. That also is impossible to refute, since the claim isn't precise enough to tell what it means.