Toby Ord: time delays in the intelligence feedback loop preclude a hyperbolic singularity
finmoorhouse · x · 2026-11-10
finmoorhouse amplifies Toby Ord's argument: if the key feedback loop through which intelligence compounds contains a time delay that doesn't shrink to zero, a hyperbolic singularity can't occur — a delayed differential equation with nonzero delay cannot explode. A tidy mathematical point against explosive takeoff scenarios.
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