Quote:Next, just asking for context:
The reason that "Singularity Levels" exist is to have a method of describing differing scale of mental ability to people, by separating the entire space of possibilities into 'tiers' with large gulfs in-between, allowing us to grapple with the similarities, differences, abilities, and perspectives of these superintelligences", correct? Or, at least, partially correct?
There isn't, like, some sort of actual scientific principle at play which states that "No, sapience/sophonce/intelligence is not a continuous scale. These are the singularity levels, and there are 7, and they must exist, like this, at this scope with this scale, and there is nothing in between these gulfs."
Toposophy
https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-topic/45b3daabb2329
To partially answer the toposophic scale question-
No there isn’t some specific scientific principle which says toposophic levels work the way they’re supposed to in the OA setting- we recently added an update to the Toposophy topic article which tried to help explain the slightly more complex situation - namely that the six singularities are supposed to be fairly distinct changes in states of mind… but are still part of a much larger and complicated landscape of possibilities. Almost none of which we actually understand because we only have humans, dolphins, octopi, etc as examples for how minds work.. and researchers seem to be still figuring that out, alongside progressing toward something that might one day approach the general intelligence of a human baby (even if specific capabilities of software are far beyond human)