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It seems like there's significant overlap between people that are afraid of AI and those that think e^x has a "knee in the curve." It's amazing they're not call
by RA_Fisher 10y ago
It seems like there's significant overlap between people that are afraid of AI and those that think e^x has a "knee in the curve." It's amazing they're not called out considering "the derivative of e^x is e^x" is memorized by HS calculus students daily.
- [1] Elon Musk
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/702534707464896512 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/702534707464896512?
- [2] Kurzweil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near#Exponential_growth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near#Expone...
- [3] Gates apparently endorsed the book: http://www.growth-dynamics.com/articles/kurzweil.htm http://www.growth-dynamics.com/articles/kurzweil.htm
- orangutango 10y agoI like this visual explanation of the illusion/fallacy: http://www.abarry.org/knee.htm http://www.abarry.org/knee.htm
- RA_Fisher 10y agoIs the group-think in our industry really so bad that we can't call Musk on outing himself as failing basic calculus?