Presets Choose Realm
Scale Mechanics
Comparison Perspective
WaitButWhy Perspective Lens:
If the history of the universe (13.8 billion years) was squeezed into 1 single calendar year, all of written human history happened in the final 12 seconds before midnight on New Year's Eve.
Durable Export
Active Milestone Proof
Selected Rung Node
AI Intelligence Explosion
Orders of Magnitude (Δ)
24
Time Horizon (Years)
15
Comparative Perception Ratio
1 second to 100 years
Fermi Paradox Threshold
Great Filter (Ahead)
Physical / Epoch Bound
10^18 FLOPS • Planetary
Tim Urban stick commentary
"The Human Brain on an Exponential Curve"
Our intuition is linear: 30 steps gets you across the street. But 30 exponential doubling steps gets you 1,073,741,824 meters—that is 26 times around planet Earth. We stand right at the knee of the curve.
Civilizational Context
The leap from recursive Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) to Artificial Superintelligence (ASI). Once machine intelligence can engineer the next generation of intelligence, the compounding cycle contracts civilizational decades into calendar weeks.