<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 28, 2026 at 8:09 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>> </span>It's becoming very difficult to deny that we are currently entering the Singularity.</b></font></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Not really.  Where's tye unbounded recursive self-improvement?  AI is helping design AI, but only helping, not doing in the way tye Singularity scenario relies upon.</i></font></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b> Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark (no relation) put <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">the </span>odds of recursive AI self-improvement at 60% by the end of 2028. Eliezer Yudkowsky’s response to that prediction was “<i>Then you’ll die with the rest of us.</i>”</b></font></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.mindstudio.ai/blog/jack-clark-anthropic-60-percent-recursive-self-improvement-2028"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Jack Clark  Put 60% Odds on Recursive AI Self-Improvement by 2028</b></font></a></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" style="" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>John K Clark</b></font></div><br><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>