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Questionable Content mentioned the singularity in passing circa last night. The phrase "according to the Internet" made me think that there was some particular exaggerated article or press release making the rounds that it was referring to, but I couldn't find it and I was encouraged to refrain from asking directly.
And now it's mentioned Friendly AI directly. Has Jeph Jacques been reading Eliezer?
Tangential, but this old XKCD is essentially a demonstration of the importance of Friendly AI.
Squirrel.
I think that the poster in question was assuming that you were unfamiliar with the Singularity in general, rather than enquiring as to the nature of the Singularity that occurred in-comic in particular.
Or, possibly, that you were silly enough to confuse the QC world with our own; they've had Strong AI since the start of the comic, after all, a superhero who delivers pizzas, and one one the cast grew up on a space station. Needless to say, it only appears similar to ours since we're just seeing the lives of a small circle of hipsters who run a coffee shop and an office-bitch-turned-librarian. I'd imagine that, say, their US Military probably looks quite different to ours.
Incidentally, I only just noticed that the latest comic's title is They've Had AI Since 1996. IIRC there was a calendar shown at one point implying(?) that it was 2004, but that's probably contradicted elsewhere, even accounting for transplanted pop culture.
Elsewhere in the comic: How did sentient machine intelligence come about?.
I'm not one of the posters in that thread.
Ah. You sort of implied that you were. No worries, then.