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形容詞

Vingean (comparative more Vingean, superlative most Vingean)

1. Of, pertaining to, or created by the American author Vernor Vinge.
2. Reminiscent of the themes and situations most commonly portrayed in Vinge's writings, most commonly artificial intelligence and superintelligence

Citations

• "Vingean uncertainty" is the peculiar epistemic state we enter when we’re considering sufficiently intelligent programs (June 30, 2020)
• Others have argued vigorously against the possibility of a Vingean Singularity; still others suggest that our present internet- and cellphone-linked, data-threaded, information-dense existence is itself beyond prediction (Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, October 30, 2011)
• In research, Vingean reflection is often framed as a self-improvement problem—agents building smarter successors (February 7, 2026)
• Vingean Reflection arises from a simple asymmetry: if a present agent could fully model the future behavior of a strictly more intelligent successor, it would already possess comparable intelligence. (December 21, 2025)
• in net discussion of the expected (by some) Vingean Singularity and the optimists who keep calculating earlier dates for this, in Ansible number 137 1/2, December 13, 1998, by Dave Langford
• It might come to pass where we hit the law of diminishing returns headfirst, before reaching the Vingean singularity. We get 90% of the way there and those last 10% requires more and more effort, finally rising to an exponential level just before singularity., by Robert Blazek, August 6, 1996
• It is much easier to make moderately convincing predictions about a cyclical society than about one that is undergoing a Vingean singularity., by Peter C. McCluskey, November 9, 1995
• Transhuman intelligence and Vingean singularities were not themes of Heinlein's., by Jo Walton, August 1, 1995
• What do you think that means? If you got your run of the mill Vingean posthuman, he (it) designs a spacecraft in an afternoon, and builds it in a week. What's the problem?, by Neelakantan Krishnaswami, October 31, 1994
• My point is not that the future won't be dramatically different, not that there won't be a Vingean Singularity, but that there hasn't been much of one in the past few millenia., by Timothy C. May, April 17, 1994