The singularity, therefore, will be bottlenecked on signal. The output of the R&D produced by an isolated data centre of geniuses would be a mere "Goodhart Singularity": Goodhart's law: when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. An isolated AI improving itself against benchmarks would only appear to be approaching superintelligence, while actually optimising for eval performance that fails to generalise beyond the lab.
Passagem de Tom Reed no ensaio “The Goodhart Singularity”, publicado em 2026 no Substack Meagre Protestant History, ao discutir benchmarks de IA, sinal e autoaperfeiçoamento.
