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Actually, Kurzweil cares. He keeps saying that according to his "laws", Singularity will happen by 2029.
by p1esk 10y ago
Actually, Kurzweil cares. He keeps saying that according to his "laws", Singularity will happen by 2029.
- leepowers 10y agoEven more than that Kurzweil boldly predicts that nanobots will cure virtually all disease within ~15-25 years (by 2030s at least, but no later than the 2040s). I certainly hope this prediction is true. But I think it has more to do with that fact that Kurzweil will be creeping towards the end of his life (gauged by average U.S. life expectancy) in the next 15 years.
- fapjacks 10y agoYeah, it's the old joke about futurists: When will humans become immortal? And every one of them gives an answer just short of their own expected demise.
- kobeya 10y agoNot all of them, but the others are signed up for cryonics.
- Koshkin 10y ago> humans become immortal The obligatory note: the true immortality is unattainable in principle without indestructibility (which is something that is hard to imagine even theoretically). Otherwise people will continue to die, en masse, from various unnatural causes. My guess as to the half-life of a human in the best of circumstances is just a couple of hundred years...
- tim333 10y agoJust make backups.
- tim333 10y agoActually Kurzweil has always estimated the singularity at 2045. It's passing the Turing test he estimated for 2029. Not that he really defines the singularity.