Tim_Tyler comments on Engelbart: Insufficiently Recursive - Less Wrong
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It sounds as though "FOOM" will always lie about a dozen doublings in the future - for anyone riding the curve. Like the end of the rainbow, it will recede as it is approached.
This is true, but not particularly comforting. After all, we won't be the ones riding the curve if/when the FOOM happens.