'The bottleneck is no longer science, it's permission': the Singularity-is-here argument
irinarish · x · 2026-10-31
Quoting KristofPoland's 'The Singularity is now' essay, irinarish distills its thesis: 'The bottleneck is no longer science. It's permission.' The original argues the Singularity won't arrive like a comet—a date, a flash, a headline—but already looks like a press release nobody reads. Like compounding, it's boring for years then sudden, and on an exponential the past is just the flat part. Evidence from the last six months of biology: a pill doubling survival in the deadliest cancer, single-infusion gene editing, a man living on a pig's kidney—each a story alone, together the knee of the curve.
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