The purest case of an intelligence explosion would be an Artificial Intelligence rewriting its own source code. The key idea is that if you can improve intelligence even a little, the process accelerates. It's a tipping point. Like trying to balance a pen on one end - as soon as it tilts even a little, it quickly falls the rest of the way.
Certainly when 'Breaking Bad' had hit its tipping point, people got very excited. They couldn't believe their eyes, that Gale could be on the subway, alive and well.
A grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment has come for the mountain to fall.
I actually don't think it matters how early or late you are as long as you hit critical mass.
When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.
I've said my patience is not infinite.
Talking about straws and camels' backs is just one way of approaching things. If you have enough camels, no backs need be broken.
It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.
But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us.
There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'
I think we could be at a tipping point
The reality is that a consumer culture which chucks out its iPhones for a new version every nine months is completely unsustainable, because Earth has already reached the tipping point. 'The General Strike' attempts to personalize these issues and encourage listeners to look for a new model.
We're putting 70 million tonnes of pollution into the atmosphere every day, trapping an enormous amount of extra heat from the sun inside the earth's atmosphere. It's threatening to push the planet past a tipping point beyond which climate change would be difficult to stop
We're heading towards a perception tipping point where it's going to soon become a foregone conclusion that not only has Newark turned a corner, but it's way down the right road.
We're seeing the reality of a lot of the North Pole starting to evaporate, and we could get to a tipping point. Because if it evaporates to a certain point - they have lanes now where ships can go that couldn't ever sail through before. And if it gets to a point where it evaporates too much, there's a lot of tundra that's being held down by that ice cap.
When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.
It only takes a handful of sizeable companies to reach a tipping point and to transform markets.
From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.
I think Ugg went out of being something that Kate Moss and Sienna Miller were wearing in high fashion circles and then they were embraced by everyone. Once something reaches that tipping point of mass popularity then suddenly the fashion world is a bit like, "Wah." As you say, you see them less kind of everywhere now so maybe it's time to bring them back.
Short stories are my favorite art form. A good one is compact and complete, a telling little slice of life, capturing a moment in time that - for the character - defines her, changes her, is the tipping point for all that will follow.
Why did one straw break the camel's back? Here's the secret: The million other straws underneath it.
If I am at home I'll put 'Tipping Point' on and will always learn something from it.
After 'Inconvenient Truth,' we hit a tipping point where almost everybody in America cares about the environment.
We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.
I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point.
