[ExI] hard science

[BillK]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 6:56 PM, William Flynn Wallace wrote:
> The reason I think it will take tens of thousands of years is that genetics
> and epigenetics is so incredibly complex that traits that depend on dozens
> or even scores of genes will take a very long time to figure out.  It wasn't
> very long ago that we called some of it 'junk' DNA before we learned that
> maybe it did something after all.  I figure we are very, very low on the
> curve - the positively accelerated part.   bill
>
>

The reason all the replies expect much quicker changes is Ray
Kurzweil's exponential curves.

Faster and faster, more and more, quicker and quicker.
Until the Singularity arrives.

BillK