Tootfinder

This afternoon’s listening:
Jon Hopkins - Singularity.
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lQnr5v1qgvB7gMmLDL_6ofEIduzYv1k9Q&si=ukJOXiLcff7ppF5x

Singularity - Album by Jon Hopkins
Singularity is the fifth studio album by English electronic musician and producer Jon Hopkins, released on 4 May 2018 through Domino Records. It was announced on 6 March 2018, with the release of the first single, "Emerald Rush". The second single, "Everything Connected", was released on 25 April, while the third, "Singularity", was released on 4 May, along with the album. The album follows Hopkins's companion previous album, Immunity. It was released to critical acclaim and was nominated at th…

RE: https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/116109430224379547
A fun thing to think about: Where are all the Singularity people with solar?
There’s this whole pseudoscientific subculture organized around the one epistemological premise of “lines that go up will go up forever,” when in reality trends change and curves level off. And now here’s this one thing where people keep stubbornly predicting that it will level off and in fact the line (on a log scale) •has• kept going up far more consistently than predicted…. So why aren’t all the Effective Altruism people saying stuff like “In the future solar cells will save trillions of lives, so it doesn’t matter how many oil executives we kill in the present?”

oh, Seedance 2 is another huge step forward in video generation. wow. https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1r0wr5l/seedance_2_anime_fight_scenes_pokemon_demon/

Cuteness singularity

Why do I feel like Vinge's Singularity really *is* about to hit, but rather than politely advancing to posthumanism and quietly fucking off to infinity, it's instead going to make sure that all actual sources of information get overrun with crap, that everybody in our entire civilization who actually knows anything gets fired from their jobs for being insufficiently productive due to refusing to using AI tools, and then we're just going to drown in this inifinite circle jerk of A…

Every now and then someone brings up #EffectiveAltruism, #TESCREAL, #RokosBasilisk, #Rationalism, or some other #Musk related nonsense. I ridicule it, or laugh, and move on. The whole evil god of Roko's Basilisk is so silly it doesn't feel worth writing about. But people started a whole cult over it and killed a bunch of people.
Since then I've been meaning to actually spend time tearing it down. So I think it's time to go kill a god. Fortunately it involves making fun of Elon Musk specifically and all the #AI-pilled #TechBros more generally, so that's nice I guess.
Also, I make the argument that we're all in a simulation that only exists to torture Elon Musk.
#NoAI #Singularity #longtermism #Yudkowsky #Zizians

Can Light Cross a Singularity? Exact Solutions from Analogue Gravity
Juan Manuel Paez, Franco Fiorini, Santiago M. Hern\'andez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.05285 https://

Lorentzian-Euclidean singularity-free solutions to gravitational collapse
Sune Rastad Bahn, Michael Cramer Andersen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03934 https://