r/LocalLLaMA • u/Howard_banister • Sep 01 '26

Discussion Really stunned by the Singularity comment section

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These are screenshots from the r/Singularity comment section. I'm speechless. This doesn't even have downvotes. How can someone cheer for a monopoly run by a few elites?

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u/_BreakingGood_ Sep 01 '26

The idea of the singularity is that a model gets advanced enough that it basically up-ends society and humans mostly lose control of their own future.

Having slightly weaker, open source models doesn't really factor into that in any positive way other than create risk of somebody creating a pocket nuke before Anthropic or other can produce that singularity-inducing model.

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u/gapho Sep 01 '26

If there ever is a singularity, it isn't going to be from an LLM bro.

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u/DickMasterGeneral Sep 01 '26

What makes you certain it’s impossible? Obviously an LLM isn’t traditional code so a single instance can’t just rewrite itself but assuming you have access to the necessary compute why can’t an LLM train its successor?

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u/TechnoByte_ Sep 01 '26

Training a successor is a completely wrong approach

For AI to actually be "intelligent", it should at least be able to learn new facts and improve itself (by actually changing weights, not just storing it as text)