You want to go to the store to get ice cream. Ice cream is delicious and the value of eating ice cream is a small positive, let's say x. There's a one in ten million chance you'll get hit by a car on the way and die, and your life is infinitely precious, therefore the expected value of going is x times 1 = x, and the one of not going is 1/10m times negative infinity which is negative infinity. You are a rational person, so you don't go. In fact you don't do much of anything. Your value model of every activity has collapsed to a single value.
That's the problem with 'singularity' arguments. The people making them ignore the fact that the mathematical definition of the word means 'the model of outcomes collapses to a single value' therefore the model stops being useful, yet they somehow claim to be able to make predictions beyond the singularity. It's like those shitty Facebook math posts where they divide both sides of the equation by 0 (the fact hidden by some sleight of hand), to 'prove' that 2=1.
The formulation of the singularity involves putting outrageous values into the parameters of the model of reality, and denominator ignorance, and then claiming 'rationally' determining that the consequences are too severe to ignore.
That's the problem with 'singularity' arguments. The people making them ignore the fact that the mathematical definition of the word means 'the model of outcomes collapses to a single value' therefore the model stops being useful, yet they somehow claim to be able to make predictions beyond the singularity. It's like those shitty Facebook math posts where they divide both sides of the equation by 0 (the fact hidden by some sleight of hand), to 'prove' that 2=1.
The formulation of the singularity involves putting outrageous values into the parameters of the model of reality, and denominator ignorance, and then claiming 'rationally' determining that the consequences are too severe to ignore.