Re:Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI
by red75prime on Sunday September 06, 2026 @03:05PM
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Who's saying that compute will become infinitely abundant? "Singularity" is just a way of saying that known models begin to give absurd predictions. Anyway, intelligence is a way of overcoming obstacles. 10 million tonnes of helium is a nice head start and retraining models from scratch is not guaranteed to last forever.
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Re:Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI
by HarHarVeryFunny on Sunday September 06, 2026 @03:20PM
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AFAIK the notion of a/the technological "singularity" is a point in time where technology is building upon itself (RSI!) so fast, at an ever increasing pace, that the speed of change effectively becomes infinite and incomprehensible to humans.
The word "singularity" is presumably coming from math or space, like a black hole singularity where matter becomes infinitely dense and the known laws of physics break down.
Re:Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI
by HarHarVeryFunny on Sunday September 06, 2026 @03:09PM
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> 10 million tonnes of helium is a nice head start
Yeah, but then you need to refine it to 99.9999% purity, to be able to use it.