Debate over Jeff Dean's 'no singularity' claim: recursive speedup vs. discontinuous jump
davidmanheim · x · 2026-11-05
After Jeff Dean's argument for why there's no singularity circulated (shared by Pedro Domingos), davidmanheim pushes back: he argues Dean's point says almost the opposite — that takeoff could absolutely keep getting exponentially faster via recursive improvement, and Dean only rules out a discontinuously, infinitely fast jump. A notable debate on singularity dynamics and intelligence-explosion speed.
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