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kaffekaka • today at 7:37 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

> We are truly inside the singularity (using Kurzweil's definition, slightly paraphrased - the time when technology progresses so fast no one can keep track with it).

Uh, are you serious?


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tshaddox • today at 8:34 PM

This was likely already the case in the ancient world. It was certainly the case by the mid to late 15th century.

p_l • today at 8:37 PM

The older, original definitions of "singularity" were less about "herp derp superintelligent AI blah blah".

and just about "we cannot really predict beyond certain things" (Vinge's "Singularity" (1993) with its "opaque wall across future")

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