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Accelerando[1] best captured what will happen. Looking back we'll be able to identify the seeds of what becomes AGI, but we cannot know in the present what that is. Only by looking back with the benefit of hindsight can we draw a line through the progression of capability. Consequently, discussion about whether or not a particular set of present or future skills is a completely pointless endeavor and is tantamount to intellectual masturbation.

1. 2005 science fiction novel by Charles Stross






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