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Re:Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 by kaffekaka on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:37PM (#50430680)
> We are truly inside the singularity (using Kurzweil's definition, slightly paraphrased - the time when technology progresses so fast no one can keep track with it).

Uh, are you serious?

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Re:Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 by tshaddox on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:34PM (#50431648)
This was likely already the case in the ancient world. It was certainly the case by the mid to late 15th century.
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Re:Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 by p_l on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:37PM (#50431704)
The older, original definitions of "singularity" were less about "herp derp superintelligent AI blah blah".

and just about "we cannot really predict beyond certain things" (Vinge's "Singularity" (1993) with its "opaque wall across future")

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Re:Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 by dwohnitmok on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:52PM (#50431946)
> The older, original definitions of "singularity" were less about "herp derp superintelligent AI blah blah".

No they were exactly about superintelligent AI!

Vinge's 1993 article literally opens with this!

> What is the Singularity? The acceleration of technological progress has been the central feature of this century. We are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth. The precise cause of this change is the imminent creation by technology of entities with greater-than-human intelligence.

https://frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/book98/com.ch1/vinge.singularity...

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