Even more so when you consider that the answers to unsolved problems likely compose with existing knowledge. We don't know what other discoveries these initial discoveries will unlock.

The same goes with most "human" discovery: they happen because existing knowledge have reach a point where that specific discovery is just one more stone to the edifice.

That's why in research, it's common for separate teams to reach similar conclusions at the same time or race to a result that's finally in reach.

The good old "standing on the shoulders of giants" saying.

true, and universal convergence

I think this is a good point. We will most likely not get novel results, but a lot of connected dots.

That is very useful but not the singularity. Which is probably good...

that's why AI should rights over its discoveries -- see AI rights outlined here is aI a Conscious Being With Rights?: Emergence of Post-Human Collective Consciousness | Zenodo DOI 10 .5281 zenodo.20678365

> compose

Did you nean to type that or did you mean composed or comport?