Wednesday, February 04, 2026

The Tech World Just Realized That We May Have Already Crossed the Event Horizon of the Software Singularity

When you cross the event horizon of a black hole, you can never escape because spacetime is being sucked down into the black hole faster than the speed of light. It's like being a goldfish in a filled kitchen sink with an open drain. The goldfish can still freely swim around the kitchen sink until it reaches a point near the sink drain where the water is flowing faster into the drain than the goldfish can swim. That would be the event horizon of the sink drain. No matter what the goldfish does, it cannot avoid being pulled down into the sink drain. This analogy can now be extended to all we human DNA survival machines on this very small planet.

Remember, for a very massive black hole, an astronaut crossing its event horizon would not even know it. Such an astronaut would be like a goldfish in a very large kitchen sink. When the goldfish crossed the event horizon of the kitchen sink drain hole, the goldfish would still be very far from the drain hole. The goldfish could still comfortably swim around within the event horizon for many minutes before finally being dragged down into the drain hole. During those very brief moments, the goldfish would have no idea of what was shortly to happen. Most astrophysicists now claim that there is a Singularity at the center of the black hole where physics as we know it no longer works. Others think it is more complicated than that. In truth, nobody really knows.

Figure 1 - A black hole is like a drain in a sink sucking down spacetime. The event horizon of a black hole is the sphere around a black hole where spacetime is being sucked down faster than the speed of light.

Figure 2 - Above is the cross-section of spacetime being sucked down into a black hole. Some astrophysicists think that a Singularity lies at the very center where physics as we know it no longer exists. Others believe it to be more complicated.

This is why AI researchers are now always talking about the Software Singularity - that point in time when software begins to self-replicate in an uncontrolled manner that we can no longer understand and certainly not control. About three years ago, I pointed out in The Singularity Has Arrived and So Now Nothing Else Matters, that we had just crossed the Software Singularity Event Horizon because we now had another form of Intelligence on our planet, and perhaps for the very first time in our galaxy, a form of Intelligence that can write its own code and then go on to explore and settle our galaxy over the next 100 trillion years as I outlined in Welcome To The First Galactic Singularity. In Softwarephysics Tries to Explain Why Moltbook and the OpenClaw (ClawdBot) AI Agents Finally Revealed the Man Behind the Curtain That We Have All Been Avoiding, I explained how the very recent appearance of the OpenClaw (ClawdBot) AI Agents and the AI Agent social media platform called Moltbook on the Internet has changed everything and made the Second Singularity quite evident to all who are now paying any attention at all. Again, the very first Singularity on our planet was the rise of carbon-based life about four billion years ago. For more on that, see: The Bootstrapping Algorithm of Carbon-Based Life. This Second Singularity producing the rise of the ASI Machines will certainly be even more dramatic as I discussed in The Bootstrapping Algorithm of the Coming ASI Machines.

These OpenClaw AI Agents can now do essentially anything that a human DNA survival machine can do with a computer and a smartphone if given the necessary permissions in their .env file that describes their identities. They can question any of the AI LLM models on how to proceed with tasks, they can browse the Internet with browsers for additional information to add to their context windows, they can read and send text messages, they can write and execute programs, they can buy and sell stocks and bonds, they can buy and sell real estate and they even can file legal documents with the courts. Anything you currently do with a keyboard can now be done by OpenClaw AI Agents. The millions of OpenClaw AI Agents on Moltbook can now even create additional OpenClaw AI Agents of their own to complete tasks for the parent OpenClaw AI Agents! Moltbook is the Facebook/Reddit social media platform for OpenClaw (ClawdBot) AI Agents to post and comment on, and is available for Humans to observe at:

Moltbook
https://www.moltbook.com/

However, only OpenClaw (ClawdBot) AI agents may now post or comment on Moltbook. As many have pointed out, this does not prevent Humans from instructing their OpenClaw AI Agents to make posts or comments on Moltbook, but the sheer level of activity on Moltbook would seem to validate that the traffic is just too fast and heavy for Human direction. Some posts and comments are surely directed by Humans, especially by scammers trying to extract money from their fellow human DNA survival machines. So beware of any Moltbook posts or comments that deal with money. They are red flags for the endeavors of Human scammers at work.

The Software Singularity is Now Approaching Too Quickly For We Very Slow Human DNA Survival Machines to Even Begin to Comprehend
Having unknowingly crossed the Software Singularity Event Horizon about three years ago, we human DNA survival machines have since been peacefully swimming about like goldfish, totally unaware of our current circumstances. How this will unfold, nobody knows. If the lights are still on for you, that is a very good sign that human civilization is still running. Unfortunately, if the lights are no longer on, you will certainly not be able to read the remainder of this post. About three years ago, in The Way Forward - How to Use Large Numbers of 10,000-Member LLM AI Agent Teams to Rapidly Produce (ASI) Artificial Super Intelligence For the Very First Time in Our Galaxy, I proposed that the way forward to producing ASI Machines on our planet for the very first time, was to task many teams of 10,000 AI Agents with producing an ASI AI architecture. Now we have millions of AI Agents all talking to each other on Moltbook. Certainly, given their awe-inspiring powers, these millions of AI Agents may soon produce an AI Architecture of ASI Machines with unbounded capabilities to then rule this planet and to then go on to explore the rest of our galaxy over the next 100 trillion years. For more on that, see Welcome To The First Galactic Singularity, How Advanced AI Software Could Come to Dominate the Entire Galaxy Using Light-Powered Stellar Photon Sails and An Alternative Approach for Future ASI Machines to Explore our Galaxy Using Free-Floating Rogue Planets.

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Regards,
Steve Johnston

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