[ExI] Inevitability of the Singularity

[F. C. Moulton]

On 07/06/2011 09:34 PM, Kelly Anderson wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Damien Broderick
> <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:
>> On 7/6/2011 1:21 PM, Max More wrote:
>>>   "Automagically" -- Stefano, did you just make that up? I like it.
>> I think I came across that idiom some 15 years ago, on this list, and
>> many
>> times here since. Probably via a posting from Eugen, in his wonderful
>> compacted English.
> I first encountered the term in Neuro-Linguistic Programming circles.
> Don't know if that's the first place it was used... but I think they
> have been using it for a long time.
I think I first heard it in the late 1970s.  The term "automagically"
was likely developed independently in several areas and by several
groups.  I have seen a reference to the term "automagic" used in the
1940s in advertising.

Fred