"No longer slow takeoff": researcher says one day offline equals weeks of AI progress
RileyRalmuto · x · 2026-10-01
After a day sick in bed, an AI researcher describes the Singularity as literal time dilation: the offline world is Interstellar's Miller's Planet, where one day away costs weeks-to-months of progress happening online. His takeaway: slow takeoff is over, we're in a steep, aggressive ascent — blink and you miss the ride.
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