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Originally Posted by sir_pudding
The Vingean singularity, specifically, is exponential growth of self-modifying code. How does that work without computers?
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It's probably meant to refer to exponential growth of technology generally and not just computers They have that in Lensman.
Note that in the "conventional" Singularity it's just sort of thrown in that when the smarter than human computers aren't designing new computers even smarter than themselves in even less time than it took themselves to be designed they sort of solve every question in physics, cosmology and Science! generally as a sort of side effect to what was really important.