AI’s big rift is like a religious schism

Re:AI’s big rift is like a religious schism by Retric on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @06:14PM (#38620152)

Saying impossible under our current understanding of physics is a massive understatement. It’s would require not just new physics but a very very specific kind of universe with zero evidence in support of it.

Suggesting the singularity is physically possible is roughly like suggesting that human telekinesis is possible, ie physics would need many very interesting errors.

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Re:AI’s big rift is like a religious schism by travisjungroth on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @09:23PM (#38621879)

I don’t think it’s an understatement. I mean, I literally called it impossible. And at all times our understanding of physics is our current understanding. I don’t mean to downplay it at all. It would be an overhaul of understanding of the universe bigger than all changes in the past put together. It would blow general relativity out of the water.

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Re:AI’s big rift is like a religious schism by losteric on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @02:41AM (#38623869)

This rhetoric around singularities is a little funny, because the singularity of blackholes (going to infinite density) is recognized to indicate knowledge gaps around how blackholes work... lines going to infinity is not necessarily taken literally. Same goes for the technology singularity.

Anyway, imo the event horizon is more interesting. That's where the paradigm shift happens - there is no way to escape whatever "comes next".

(Note - some people confusingly use "singularity" to refer to the phase between the event horizon and "infinity")

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