CarlShulman comments on AI timeline predictions: are we getting better? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: V_V 17 September 2012 10:39:33AM *  1 point [-]

Were those developments predicted decades in advance? I'm talking about relatively mainstream predictions, not predictions by some individual researcher who could have got it right by chance.

Comment author: CarlShulman 17 September 2012 11:11:46AM 2 points [-]

Reader's Digest and the like. All you needed to do was straightforward trend extrapolation during a period of exceptionally fast change in everyday standards of living.