[ExI] Kurzweil accused by a fool of being a first-rate bullshit artist

[John K Clark]

> The most obvious flaw is the way he lumps multiple events together as one
> to keep the distribution linear. For example, one "event" is "Genus Homo,
> Homo erectus, specialized stone tools", and another is "Printing,
> experimental method" and "Writing, wheel".

That is not Kurzweil's fault, it is in the nature of logarithmic plots. If
you wanted those events treated separately you'd need a chart the size of a
football field for the human eye to distinguish such closely spaced points.

> why isn't each species back to the Cambrian awarded equivalent
> significance?

Because he's only interested in the most powerful information processing
machine that existed in various eras and how their capacity has increased
over time. He wasn't interested in a new species of nematodes and neither am 
I.

 John K Clark