[ExI] Kurzweil shares five key insights from his new book, The Singularity Is Nearer

[Kelly Anderson]

It's interesting to note that the author of this paper doesn't even
bother to look at the decades during which hundreds of his past
predictions have come to pass. I myself can't believe that vertical
gardening is going to be as big as he claims, but maybe that's my lack
of vision. On the other hand, if my predictions about soil erosion and
degredation are correct we may HAVE to do that.

-Kelly


On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 1:54 PM BillK via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 16 Jul 2024 at 18:15, Keith Henson via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> > I don't think it matters much.  The most significant antiaging
> > substances are not regulated to any extent;
> >
> > Re your thoughts on LOAR, that seems to be the curretn situation with
> > respect to AI.  I think the key factor is "Does it make money" and
> > once that happens it attracts more and more money.  Toward the end of
> > Drexler's Radical Abundance, he discusses how the path to his vision
> > was derailed.  Had there been a money-making product, I think the
> > history would have been very different.
> >
> > Keith
> >_______________________________________________
>
>
> Another review, less enthusiastic about Kurzweil's predictions.
> BillK
>
> <https://nautil.us/ray-kurzweil-still-lives-in-utopia-716444/>
> Quotes:
> This is the singularity as Kurzweil imagines it, when “the AIs will
> become part of us, and thus it is we who will be doing those things.”
> If Kurzweil is even remotely right, then 10 years from now our
> lives—our very society—will be totally unrecognizable.
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