The technological singularity occurred last week, according to accelerationist investor Silas Vector, who made the claim during an appearance on The Upward Curve, a podcast where people with expensive microphones help each other say insane things in a reasonable tone.
Vector initially placed the transition “sometime last Thursday”, after observing a straight line on a logarithmic chart and quietly forgiving the public for not being ready. The host then encouraged him not to “anchor too conservatively around calendar time”, prompting Vector to revise the estimate to Tuesday, or possibly Monday if the compounding was understood properly.
The episode was recorded in a studio where the guest Wi-Fi required a password no one could find, one camera repeatedly stopped recording due to insufficient storage, and the air conditioning had broken in a way described by the producer as “not ideal, but sort of on brand”. None of these were considered meaningful counterexamples.
Asked whether ordinary people might experience the singularity through rent, food prices, medical booking forms, broken trains, or software that asks them to prove they are human before refusing to help them, Vector said those were “linear-world signals”. The studio then fell briefly silent while the host’s laptop began installing an update.