The visual design emphasizes that we cannot predict beyond a certain point — the final era is labeled "the unknowable" because post-singularity intelligence may be as incomprehensible to us as quantum physics is to a goldfish.
Step 1: The AI starts to simulate itself at time t to see what it will do at t+1. Step 2: In the simulation at time t, the simulated AI also decides to simulate itself to see what it will do at t+2. Step 3: This creates an infinite regress. The simulation must contain a simulation, which contains a simulation, and so on, instantly requiring infinite computational power.
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Step 1: The AI starts to simulate itself at time t to see what it will do at t+1. Step 2: In the simulation at time t, the simulated AI also decides to simulate itself to see what it will do at t+2. Step 3: This creates an infinite regress. The simulation must contain a simulation, which contains a simulation, and so on, instantly requiring infinite computational power.