(04-23-2016, 04:11 AM)QwertyYerty Wrote: How did the first human acension happen?
I don't think we've ever gone into the details of that, other than to say that humans (more generally bionts) didn't figure out how to ascend until some thousands of years after the AIs (and later uploads) did.
When OA was first created, it was much more focused on the 'present day' thousands of years in the future, with all of the intermediate history just being there to provide a bit of backstory. Since then, people have become more interested in the earlier parts of the timeline (particularly the Interplanetary Age) and more information has been generated for it.
Most likely there was some program of study implemented by some group of modosophonts and transapients working together to figure out the necessary methodologies and technologies to let a human (or other biont) successfully breach a Singularity level.
Todd