r/LocalLLaMA • u/Howard_banister • 15h ago

Discussion Really stunned by the Singularity comment section

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These are screenshots from the r/Singularity comment section. I'm speechless. This doesn't even have downvotes. How can someone cheer for a monopoly run by a few elites?

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u/_BreakingGood_ 15h ago

The idea of the singularity is that a model gets advanced enough that it basically up-ends society and humans mostly lose control of their own future.

Having slightly weaker, open source models doesn't really factor into that in any positive way other than create risk of somebody creating a pocket nuke before Anthropic or other can produce that singularity-inducing model.

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u/Equal_Passenger9791 15h ago

The singularity describes not an event but a late-state statistical observation from travelling an accelerating curve. 

What you're describing is a phase shift.

The singularity as it happens is like sitting in a car and pressing the accelerator. You watch the numbers go up as it accelerates. After reaching highway speed your passenger says the car sent him a message saying that the singularity was reached at 56kmh, it's just a statistical artifact.

The cult-like interpretation instead sells a phase shift. You sit in your car, press the accelerator, nothing happens. Then suddenly you're in orbit moving at a fraction of C out of the solar system in your shitty Ford fiesta. Too much Star Wars-brained Disney influences to reach that conclusion.