Jonathan Blow

If you try to design rockets, and the imagined rocket in your head is 1000x off the capabilities of a real rocket, you probably ain't getting to orbit. I am not sure where walking-on-hands comes from.

You’re using singularity level fluff talk to inflate the basic concept that the better you understand a system the better you can work with it.

Are you a programmer?

Yes.

If you are a programmer and you think that what I am saying is "singularity-level fluff talk", then I am afraid you are exhibiting exactly the problem I am talking about. This isn't singularity-level anything, it is objective reality today.

The only reason it would sound like "singularity-level fluff talk" is if indeed your picture of a computer is way slower than what they actually are, such that 1000x greater performance sounds like some far-future singularity thing. It's not. It's what we would get if we

cleaned up our act on current-day, existing, computers.

This would be simple to test. Write a 1000x more efficient compression algorithm, let me know when you’re done.