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That's a pretty good concept and you could say there is a fairly wide gap between your everyday singularity and the ultimate singularity.

Which seems to me likely the result of an unforeseen variable or variables, and that's got to have outsized, uncharacterized, and unexpected importance to have such a strong effect.

When the overwhelming consensus is that wonderful things are waiting just around the corner, it still could turn out to be just the opposite and you'll never know until you actually turn the corner.