# Contested concept: singularity

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- **Contestedness**: semantic
- **Diagnosis**: This masks whether jaggedness is permanent, which decides whether human-protected domains endure.
- **Canonical**: `/concept/singularity` (data: `/concept/singularity.json`)

## Senses in use
- **Already begun, unevenly distributed; defined by a time-travel test of whether current news would look like a beginning to someone twenty years ago** — used in 6 claim(s)
- **A future event that rounds AI's spiky capabilities into a perfect circle across all domains.** — used in 3 claim(s)
- **A process already underway but unevenly distributed.** — used in 2 claim(s)
- **Sudden recursive self-improving superintelligence taking over without warning; the classic scenario he calls implausible** — used in 2 claim(s)

## Claims using this term
- [[If the singularity turns AI's shape into a perfect circle, it would be] as if Moravec's Paradox was a temporary artifact of anthropocentri…](/claim/claim_0f073b294310.md) _(sense: A future event that rounds AI's spiky capabilities into a perfect circle across all domains.)_
- [[That the news of these past few weeks would look like the beginning of an AI Singularity to someone twenty years ago] is all we need. No b…](/claim/claim_2a0dd26a3a28.md) _(sense: Already begun, unevenly distributed; defined by a time-travel test of whether current news would look like a beginning to someone twenty years ago)_
- [If [AI taking over the world] is going to happen, we'll see many warning signs first.](/claim/claim_59069df238a7.md) _(sense: Sudden recursive self-improving superintelligence taking over without warning; the classic scenario he calls implausible)_
- [The singularity has already started, but it is wildly unevenly distributed.](/claim/claim_b320985258a7.md) _(sense: A process already underway but unevenly distributed.)_
- [The part of the story [of AI taking over the world] that's wildly implausible is that a recursively self-improving superintelligence will j…](/claim/claim_b37480770f38.md) _(sense: Sudden recursive self-improving superintelligence taking over without warning; the classic scenario he calls implausible)_
- [If we took the news of these past few weeks and sent it back in time twenty years, it would look like the beginning of an AI Singularity, a…](/claim/claim_b7e9c6359ccd.md) _(sense: Already begun, unevenly distributed; defined by a time-travel test of whether current news would look like a beginning to someone twenty years ago)_
- [The Singularity has already started; it's just wildly unevenly distributed.](/claim/claim_ba5bb8f6e39b.md) _(sense: Already begun, unevenly distributed; defined by a time-travel test of whether current news would look like a beginning to someone twenty years ago)_
- [The Singularity has already started; it's just wildly unevenly distributed.](/claim/claim_cc139cf18f92.md) _(sense: Already begun, unevenly distributed; defined by a time-travel test of whether current news would look like a beginning to someone twenty years ago)_
- [The singularity will turn AI’s shape into a perfect circle, engulfing all domains as if they were all equally easy.](/claim/claim_cde1edbdc931.md) _(sense: A future event that rounds AI's spiky capabilities into a perfect circle across all domains.)_
- [The intellectually honest answer is: yes, absolutely, [the news of these past few weeks, if sent back in time twenty years, would look like…](/claim/claim_e8d7c9cc565e.md) _(sense: Already begun, unevenly distributed; defined by a time-travel test of whether current news would look like a beginning to someone twenty years ago)_
- [The singularity will turn AI's shape into a perfect circle, engulfing all domains as if they were all equally easy.](/claim/claim_f04152eeb15b.md) _(sense: A future event that rounds AI's spiky capabilities into a perfect circle across all domains.)_
- [AI multiplies the effect of the familiar idea that "the future is already here, just not evenly distributed."](/claim/claim_f07610fe2922.md) _(sense: A process already underway but unevenly distributed.)_
- [The test for whether the Singularity has begun is this: if we took the news of these past few weeks and sent it back in time twenty years, …](/claim/claim_fb95f1be6453.md) _(sense: Already begun, unevenly distributed; defined by a time-travel test of whether current news would look like a beginning to someone twenty years ago)_