The Singularity in Our Past Light-Cone (Three-Toed Sloth, 2010)

Pretty much my own view but it's nice to see someone else say it. Cosma Rohilla Shalizi at Three-Toed Sloth[1] writes in "The Singularity in Our Past Light-Cone" (November 28, 2010):

The Singularity has happened; we call it "the industrial revolution" or "the long nineteenth century". It was over by the close of 1918.

Exponential yet basically unpredictable growth of technology, rendering long-term extrapolation impossible (even when attempted by geniuses)? Check....

Continued at the dreddit.

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