Kelly: Singularity traveling mirage, not event

Kelly’s "traveling mirage" framework is a necessary reality check for the current AI hype cycle, reframing the "rapture" as a continuous historical curve. The "Type 3 Mind" critique challenges the fundamental assumption that human intelligence can infinitely bootstrap smarter agents, while Kelly identifies the Industrial Revolution as the true inflection point. He argues that phase shifts are imperceptible from within, suggesting we may already be "post-singularity" without a dramatic rupture. By treating the singularity as a perspective illusion on a log-log graph, the essay moves the conversation from prophecy to mathematical inevitability.