Keller Jordan's satirical theorem: the computational singularity can last at most 470 years
kellerjordan0 · x · 2026-09-03
kellerjordan0 posted a tongue-in-cheek "theorem and proof": starting from 4.5e14 FLOPs of global compute in 1986 (Hilbert et al. 2011) and at least 1e22 FLOPs by 2025 (estimated from public Nvidia revenue and GPU specs), implying 55% average annual growth, then applying Seth Lloyd's 2000 physical universal limit of 10^104 FLOPs, the "computational singularity" — the era of rapid-compute-driven unpredictability — cannot last beyond (2025-1986) + (104-22)/log10(1.55) ≈ 470 years, even allowing for faster-than-light travel.
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