DanArmak comments on Reference class of the unclassreferenceable - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanArmak 10 January 2010 07:33:25PM 0 points [-]

A Singularity doesn't necessarily mean change too fast for us to comprehend. It just means change we can't comprehend, period - not even if it's local and we sit and stare at it from the outside for 100 years. That would still be a Singularity.

Comment author: Bugle 12 January 2010 03:04:02PM 0 points [-]

I think we're saying the same tihng - the singularity has happened inside the box, but not outside. It's not as if staring at stuff we can't understand for centuries is at all new in our history, it's more like business as usual...