As I've been doing with all the major LLM releases for a few years now, I gave GPT-5 a simple prompt to write a short story about the Singularity coming to pass. The improvements aren't overwhelming at first blush, but its ability to turn a phrase and to keep some...
I was recently watching a tennis exhibition match between Jessica Pegula and Emma Navarro when the commentators pointed out that both of these top-ten players come from billionaire families. Naturally, I quickly get to wondering what we reasonably infer from this observation. How much does coming from a billionaire background...
Let us stipulate the following: 1. The universe is fundamentally discrete / deterministic. (Seems reasonably plausible.) 2. There's a way to perform hypercomputation, in the sense that one can build or leverage a Turing-complete mechanism which can perform infinitely many computations in seemingly finite time, and store an infinite amount...