Books

Ray Kurzweil’s bibliography in a nutshell:

Published:
1990: The Age of Intelligent Machines
1999: The Age of Spiritual Machines
2005: The Singularity is Near
2024: The Singularity is Nearer

Upcoming:
2028: The Singularity is Right Around the Corner, I Swear
2035: Anytime Now, Trust Me Bro
2042: My Bad, It Was a Logistic Curve and Not an Exponential Curve All Along

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I was redpilled on AOSM and remain a Kurzweil fanboi to this day, so my cast was a bit tongue-in-cheek. I even added his Singularity Executive Program earlier this year.

I agree with you that his self-confessed fear of mortality made him underestimate the timelines involved.

Separately, there’s the nagging possibility that the singularity never happens, because trees don’t grow to the sky and the universe hates infinities.

We could be on a logistic curve for emerging properties of AI and not be able to tell the difference

Aha yeah I read aosm when it came out - provocative with some wishful thinking no doubt. directionally correct maybe but certainly his timeline was skewed due to his age.

Guess we'll have to keep our calendars open for another few decades! At least Kurzweil keeps the future interesting.  imagine the anticipation build-up. Maybe 2042 will finally be the year of Hey, I Found the User Manual for the Universe!

I feel like most everything is that logistic curve but everyone hopes for the exponential

Relevant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDUC-LqVrPU

Kurzweil is one of those thinkers/authors I've only read _about_. For no apparent reason. Thanks for lol and for fixing my vacation read list. 150 $degen