When cumulative chip FLOPS exceeds all human brainpower born since 1970
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~132.4M births/year (2025) = ~4.2 births/second10^14 ops/s - Moravec's retinal processing extrapolation10^16 ops/s - Synapse count × firing rate estimate10^18 ops/s - Full neural complexity estimate2×10^20 IPS global capacity (Hilbert & Lopez, 2012)1.15T semiconductor units shipped (WSTS)2.2×10^21 FLOPS"Welcome to the early twenty-first century, human.
It's night in Milton Keynes, sunrise in Hong Kong. Moore's Law rolls inexorably on, dragging humanity toward the uncertain future. The planets of the solar system have a combined mass of approximately 2 × 1027 kilograms. Around the world, laboring women produce forty-five thousand babies a day, representing 1023 MIPS of processing power. Also around the world, fab lines casually churn out thirty million microprocessors a day, representing 1023 MIPS. In another ten months, most of the MIPS being added to the solar system will be machine-hosted for the first time. About ten years after that, the solar system's installed processing power will nudge the critical 1 MIPS per gram threshold – one million instructions per second per gram of matter. After that, singularity – a vanishing point beyond which extrapolating progress becomes meaningless. The time remaining before the intelligence spike is down to single-digit years ..."
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