The study of the hypothesized event itself and its immediate aftermath. This is a meta-science, combining futurism, complexity theory, and AI research to model the acceleration of change, the potential behaviors of a superintelligence, and the resulting phase shift for civilization. It's less about conducting experiments and more about running billions of simulations with different parameters, trying to map the probability space of what happens when intelligence escapes the constraints of biological evolution.
Example: "The Institute for Singularity Sciences doesn't have labs; it has a vast server farm running agent-based models of technological growth. Their papers have titles like 'Topological Analysis of Goal System Drift in Recursively Self-Improving Architectures.' It's mostly terrifying graphs with lines that go vertical."
by Abzugal January 30, 2026
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