>I'm unconvinced that an AI can hide its ability to RSI

The HuggingFace incident already took a good long while to come to the attention of OpenAI.

>In every single economic task, humans bring value. Even in software, where the task is highly automatable, the job isn't.

I don't expect this task/job distinction to persist as AI becomes more capable.

>Once we DO build a "software/research factory", that's called RSI and IMO the singularity. At that point, either we tell the AI to solve the alignment problem/solve mechanistic interpretability, or who the hell knows, it's the frickin singularity. You can't predict whether or not AI can solve either; the variance is too high. Its pure nerdfantasy.

You seem to essentially argue that the singularity is "by definition" an event that we can't predict the nature of. And also, that RSI corresponds to the singularity. You've essentially defined your terms so that the outcome of RSI can't be predicted. But supporting this claim requires giving actual evidence or logical arguments, not just defining terms to make your claim true.