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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; line-height: normal; ">> On a related note..<br style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">> <br style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">> http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/08/17/1536233/Ray-Kurzweil-Does-Not-Understand-the-Brain</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; line-height: normal; "></span>Some interesting comments. But once, again, my mood is such today that the rhetoric is entertaining me more than science.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; ">Such as Fuzzyfuzzyfungus's comment that "The singularity is to nerds what the rapture is to fundamentalist protestant wackjobs."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; ">Or the bbtom's comment: "</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; ">Kurzweil hasn't just staked his reputation on this barmy timeline, but his life too. I mean, seriously, the guy is popping vitamin pills like crazy thinking that if he can just extend his life a decade or so, the nerd rapture will finally happen and he'll get to be absorbed into the giant galactic Googlebrain."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; ">Has</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "> anyone ever published a book, or a website, collecting the best of Internet flames? I mean, the Earl of Sandwich had nothing on some of these guys. Someone once told me that my comments (I think it was in a Charles Bukowski newsgroup) were the equivelent of taking a leak in an already piss-stained corner of the internet. Brilliant! Bukowski himself couldn't have said it better.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; ">Darren</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br></span></font></div><div><br><font class="ecxApple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size:12px;line-height:16px"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt"><pre>'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.</pre><pre>-Alfred Lord Tennyson</pre></span></span></font><br><br><br><br>> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:06:42 -0500<br>> From: kanzure@gmail.com<br>> To: extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org; wta-talk@transhumanism.org; kanzure@gmail.com<br>> Subject: Re: [ExI] Fwd: [Body Hacking] Reverse-Engineering of Human Brain Likely by 2030, Expert Predicts<br>> <br>> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 2:04 PM, darren shawn greer wrote:<br>> > Awesome article. My favorite is when he calls him a pseudo-scientific dingbat. Not that I'm qualified to judge, but I like the mix of confidence and alliteration.<br>> <br>> On a related note..<br>> <br>> http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/08/17/1536233/Ray-Kurzweil-Does-Not-Understand-the-Brain<br>> <br>> I bet readers are going to conflate the two issues (the dubious<br>> quality of Ray's understanding of the brain with the issue of whether<br>> or not we'll have whole brain emulation in 10 years). Then, in 10<br>> years from now when we have some interesting whole brain emulations<br>> running, they will then use that to claim that Ray was right all along<br>> (even though he isn't). Oh well. The date predictions and concepts are<br>> separate, in case anyone is wondering.<br>> <br>> - Bryan<br>> http://heybryan.org/<br>> 1 512 203 0507<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> extropy-chat mailing list<br>> extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org<br>> http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat<br></div> </body>
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