What if you could think a million times faster? One second feels like 12 days
Dr_Singularity · x · 2026-10-18
A thought experiment on million-fold thinking speed: one second of subjective time would feel like 12 days, a minute nearly two years. An afternoon could stretch into centuries, letting an agent explore thousands of ideas before a question is even finished — and a weekend at that speed would exceed the entire history of written civilization.
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