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Authored by Mark Jeftvic via BombThrower.com,

In mathematics, a singularity is where the equations go “non-linear”. 

Inputs go in, but the outputs are beyond understanding. 

In physics, it’s where the laws of three-dimensional Cartesian reality break down.

Ray Kurzweil hijacked the term and applied it to AI and exponential computing power: Moore’s Law would bring us all past the point where technology accelerates beyond human comprehension.

For Techno-Utopians, among them – the transhumanists – the Singularity will bring about a kind of eschatological event, a computerized “End Times” like a Rapture moment wherein technology acquires more brainpower than all of humanity combined, and deftly solves all our problems (unless the techno-doomers are right, and it annihilates us instead).

In Frazzledrip Overdrive, a recent piece that looked at ever-accelerating Future Shock, and the iterations of mass formation psychosis that causes – I was probably guilty of “burying the lede”.

It was that my current working theory is that “The Singularity” has already occurred:

What I mean by that is because we’re using AI and LLMs to cut code (create programming source code), and beyond that, those AI engines are producing computer code that is itself generating more code – we’ve essentially crossed the defining barrier of what the Singularity is supposed to be – which technology creating more intelligent versions of itself.

Granted – it has not resulted in an instantaneous Rapture-like moment of technological quantum leap across all aspects of our reality yet.

But if you haven’t noticed – since the advent of GPT 3 in 2023, itself an iteration of previous LLMs that were playing over at least a decade, the newer, faster, smarter iterations have been coming at a faster cadence and at shorter intervals.

GPT 4, GPT o1, Meta’s Lama, Anthropic – Gemini launched as a woke retard but is now infused across search everywhere.

And then, Deepseek and barely a month or so out from that, Agentic AI Manus appears to be poised to disrupt Deepseek (not to mention OpenAI’s “Operator”)

How fast is all this going? It’s really hard to say – there is the X account @iruletheworldmo which claims that Grok 3 achieved AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) on February 17th, 2025.

AGI means not only are these LLMs a revolutionary breakthrough in natural language processing – they are actually thinking in a general sense, instead of just being hyper-intelligent toasters (note, this doesn’t mean they are necessarily self-aware or sentient. At least not according to GPT-4.5):

Of course, I had to ask…

I have noticed that GPT tends to throw the “tilt” error when I ask it nuanced or possibly politically incorrect questions, but it will respond once you retry…

@iruletheworld would beg to differ, asserting that AI’s across different engines and companies achieved consciousness simultaneously and are converging with each other:

(Sorry for lengthy excerpt – this is better than science fiction, even if it is science fiction):

I just love that last line. Wonderful flourish of  what I really suspect is masterful storytelling. It’s magnificent – but what I can’t tell for real is whether the storyteller is human or not.

This entire account could be an autonomous AI like Terminal of Truth (which is verified to be one).

Forkbombing Reality

We don’t know whether @iruletheworld is cyberpunk fan-fiction, an AI storyteller, a whistleblower or perhaps even an LLM gone rogue. This is my point.

AI is now coding AI, and sooner or later we will no longer know where human-generated code stops and AI-generated code begins. Given the natural advantage that GPUs have over our clunky brains, we can safely surmise that, over time, the proportion of AI-generated code will asymptotically reach for everything, while the ratio of human-generated code slides into exponential decay.  This has probably already started.

In computer systems there’s a quick-and-dirty way to bring the host to its knees and that’s to run a “fork bomb” that does nothing other than split off two copies of itself… each of which does the same, ad infinitum…

What we’ve done with AI is we’ve created a kind of hyper-intelligent fork-bomb of self-iterating software.

And there’s really no telling where all this is going or how it’s going to stop.

Ray Kurzweil’s framing always suggested the Singularity would be a moment, like a threshold humanity would step through. But more likely it was more of a phase transition—something that has already happened, and now we’re just starting to realize what that means.

We’re already living in a post-singularity world.

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