> I am aware this is unhinged. We're doing it anyway.

If one is looking for a quote that describes today's tech industry perfectly, that would be it.

Also using the MMLU as a metric in 2026 is truly unhinged.

I am curious which definition of ‘singularity’ the author is using, since there are multiple technical interpretations and none are universally agreed upon.

Who willingly reads this pompous AI slop?

I really think we gotta bring back poe's law for AI prognostication. This article has a lot of the staples of both LLM-written prose (e.g. "it's not just a [thing], it's a [other, hyperbolically totalizing thing]!") but also of booster articles, including the wile e coyote gif, but the fact that its claim is that this is primarily a phenomenon of belief and being willing to point to its brittle modeling assumptions make me wonder if it's parody

A hyperbolic curve doesn't have an underlying meaning modeling a process beyond being a curve which goes vertical at a chosen point. It's a bad curve to fit to a process. Exponentials make sense to model a compounding or self-improving process.

> already exerting gravitational force on everything it touches.

So, "Falling of the night" ?

> Hyperbolic growth is what happens when the thing that's growing accelerates its own growth.

No. That is quite literally exponential growth, basically by definition. If x(t) is a growing value, then x'(t) is it's growth, and x''(t) its acceleration. If x influences x'' , say by a linear relation

x''(t) = x(t)

You get exponentials out as the solutions. Not hyperbolic.

I always thought of the exponential as the pole of the function "amount of work that can be done per unit time per human being", where the pole comes about from the fact that humans cease to be the limiting factor, so an infinity pops out.

There is no infinity in practice, of course, because even though humans should be made independent of the quantity of extractable work, you'll run into other boundaries instead, like hardware or resources like energy.

Rosie O'Donnell will expand into "her" ultimate shape on a Tuesday? Wow.

The Roman Empire took 400 years to collapse, but in San Francisco they know the singularity will occur on (next) Tuesday.

The answer to the meaning of life is 42, by the way :)