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>As for SL4, does being comfortable with it mean you think it's going to happen soon?
Not necessarily. The intelligence explosion (singularity) and a limited amount of mental revision might occur in our lifetimes. The intelligence explosion could happen at any time because we're not sure what's required for AGI. If AGI requires new insight into cognition, then it could happen any time between now and a hundred years from now. If the algorithms we currently have are good enough and all we need is hardware, then it could happen a couple of decades from now. Most AI researchers think the problem is software, not hardware, so it's hard to say when AGI might occur.
Limited forms of mental revision in the form of BCIs and other neuroprosthetics are quite possible by mid-century. See this book for more details on that.
The rest of the stuff on that list would take much more time.
> SL1 is about all we'll see in our lifetime.
SL1 is basically what we have today, minus the hydrogen economy (which will likely never happen) and genetic improvements.
We're already seeing hints of SL2 and SL3 (genetic engineering, nanotechnology). Technology is advancing exponentially, not logarithmically, so I think you'll turn out to be wrong on that one. But we'll see I guess.
The only things I would rule out (from SL0-SL3) for the next few decades is interstellar exploration, since the problems are just too daunting to accomplish in under a century.