Lumifer comments on Superintelligence Reading Group - Section 1: Past Developments and Present Capabilities - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 16 September 2014 08:04:35PM 3 points [-]

That's an impossible question -- we have no capability to generate clones of ourselves with no knowledge of history. The only thing you can get as answers are post-factum stories.

An answerable version would be "which past technologies at that time they appeared did people expect to be a big deal or no big deal?" But that answer requires a lot of research, I think.