[marvin]

When generally intelligent machines have been improving the intelligence and capabilities of intelligent machines for a while, presumably better and faster than humans could.

I’m open to the idea that this might not make technology or society completely incomprehensible, or incomprehensible over a short period of time.

I’d expect the world to become increasingly surprising and confusing as we approach the time when machine intelligence is developed, but a successful, safe advent of machine intelligence might conserve enough of the fabric of society that humans can understand it. I’d expect dramatic and explosive developments to be more associated with borderline or unsafe (heaven forbid) AI that ends up doing its own thing.

This is still all in the realm of philosophy, so it would be very surprising if we were able to predict the details.