It also talks about "straight lines on a graph"...and promptly proceeds to illustrate this concept using a graph with a logarithmic scale.
Combined with the author's evident belief that facilely restating the concept of hard-takeoff singularity (as "AI can replace an machine learning engineer by...") suffices to change the nature of the basic claim he's making, I didn't see any pressing need to read further. Singularitarian sophistry is hardly novel in 2024, and at this late date retains no meaningful capacity even to entertain.
Combined with the author's evident belief that facilely restating the concept of hard-takeoff singularity (as "AI can replace an machine learning engineer by...") suffices to change the nature of the basic claim he's making, I didn't see any pressing need to read further. Singularitarian sophistry is hardly novel in 2024, and at this late date retains no meaningful capacity even to entertain.