[ExI] What's Wrong With Academic Futurists?

[natasha at natasha.cc]

Keith wrote:

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> The military has detailed plans (that actually work) going out 25 years.
> They also peer down the road a century, but that one is anyone's guess.
> They talk about AI, singularity, all the stuff we discuss here.  I 
> wouldn't be surprised a bit if some of the graduates of the 
> Singularity University end up working for DARPA.

"Maybe. I have been less than impressed by some of the SU grads. It's not
like a couple of months turns you into a god."

Right.  Most SU grads are making connections through SU's TED-like gusto for
entrepreneurs by unaccredited training rather than academic scholastics.

Natasha