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What "sci-fi baggage"?

"Intelligence explosion" was first described by I.J. Good, a mathematician. von Neumann described singularity as a result of accelerating technical progress. He's also a mathematician, not a sci-fi author, although he was a participant in a sci-fi-like plot of secret project building a bomb more powerful than any chemical bomb...



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