'Zeno's Singularity': the name for gentle, low-slope recursive self-improvement
bradneuberg · x · 2026-10-22
bradneuberg highlights a fitting new term, 'Zeno's Singularity,' for the scenario where RSI arrives but with a gentle, low slope of improvement — progress that asymptotically approaches but never reaches an intelligence explosion, like Zeno's paradox.
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