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It feels like we’re on the brink of something (beehaw.org)
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TL;DR: It's an expansion on Moore's law that theorizes that science, especially AI, will continue to advance itself in a exponential feedback loop. It's also been called The Law of Accelerating Returns, by Ray Kurzweil. His estimate was sentient AI by mid 2020's and singularity around mid 2040's.