Bayeslisk comments on Open thread for December 17-23, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 23 December 2013 08:30:50AM 0 points [-]

Vinge said something of the sort-- that the Singularity would be unimaginable from its past, but after the Singularity (he's assuming one which includes humans), the path to the Singularity will be known, and it will seem quite plausible.

Comment author: Bayeslisk 23 December 2013 09:56:18AM 1 point [-]

That's something a little different - I think that's already talked about here. Maybe under the Hindsight Bias? At any rate, I'm not talking about looking back; I'm talking about looking from within. The march of history is almost always too slow to see, and even with a significant speedup it'd still probably seem "normal". Only right at the end would it be clear that a Singularity is occurring.