On 2021-03-10 09:11:AM, Matt Mahoney wrote:
It seem that Good and Vinge do use "singularity" in the mathematical sense, although that actually prevents us from predicting one, as Vinge calls it an "event horizon on the future".
In pop physics, an event horizon is different from a singularity. There's thought to be an association between them - in that singularities are shielded from observers by event horizons, and can therefore never be observed or interacted with. I don't think there's much to be gained by mixing these ideas from physics with forecasting the future. It does seem to have made a sticky meme - but when it comes to confusing ideas, that hardly seems very positive.
If it does slow down, as I argue it eventually must in a finite universe, what should we call it? How about the inflection point in Moore's Law. We might have already reached it. Clock speeds stalled in 2010. Transistors can't be smaller than the spacing between dopant atoms, a few nm, and we are close to that now. [...]
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