It's fascinating, existential, hopeful, and worrisome to the n'th degree, here's hoping its post scarcity utopia, rather than something Orwell could never have fathomed.

"As smart as" is difficult to measure and judge. I think by 1980s standards, we might already be at something like a singularity as they might have judged it.

Is there a solid metric for "when" singularity "happens"? I don't entirely understand the concept, I came into this sub thinking it was about black holes.

My theory:

This subreddit got really excited about Chatgpt, got linked to it in recommendeds, and grew alongside it in popularity.

Also, if subreddits works anything like comments and posts, things tend to snowball once they get high engagement because of both recommendations and clout (people respond to big numbers).