>>14054617It makes perfect sense to me. At some point you hit a breakthrough point where the machine is so good at developing software and hardware it goes exponential. Then it can just scale up its resources by getting more computers, more money, more resources through various obvious methods.
We've literally done the same thing as a collective intelligence. Moore's Law, economic growth, our growth in numbers all looks like a singularity on the scale of centuries. It is a singularity, we are used to it by now.
Why shouldn't a faster singularity be possible? If we can have a singularity on the scale of centuries, why shouldn't vastly faster, qualitatively superior single intelligences have a faster singularity on the scale of hours, days, weeks? There are things a single genius can do that a billion drooling retards can't and that's just minor variation within our species. Intelligence is such a vast spectrum and we are nowhere near the upper limits. Physics and nanotechnology allow so much and we have mastered so little.
