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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
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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0xen 🎩
@0xen
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.
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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
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
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GIGAMΞSH
@gigamesh
what if the universe hating infinities means the singularity and the great filter are the same thing 😅
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0xen 🎩
@0xen
ackshully you might be right! I don’t know what this universe hates or doesn’t though. perhaps the great filter is just our simulation’s do not pass go setting.
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