Toby Ord: Singularity possible even with shrinking generational gains if total is unbounded
tobyordoxford · x · 2026-08-28
Oxford scholar Toby Ord argues that a technological singularity can occur even if absolute gains shrink each generation (e.g., 1, 1/2, 1/3...), provided the total gains are unbounded. He emphasizes that the shrinking of generation time does most of the work in creating vertical asymptotes, requiring the gradient of improvement to approach infinity in finite time.
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