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Comment author: JQuinton 08 December 2014 08:11:57PM 2 points [-]

Looking for some people to refute this recently hair-brained idea I came up with.

The time period from the advent of the industrial revolution to the so-called digital revolution was about 150 - 200 years. Even though computers were being used around WWII, widespread computer use didn't start to shake things up until 1990 or so. I would imagine that AI would constitute a similar fundamental shift in how we live our lives. So would it be a reasonable extrapolation to think that widespread AI would be about 150 - 200 years after the beginning of the information age?

Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 08 December 2014 08:41:17PM 18 points [-]

By what principle would such an extrapolation be reasonable?