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No, it matters what his reasoning is, too, as it relates to just being lucky (or as I tell my nieces when they’re studying for a science class and guess the rig
by arkades 9y ago
No, it matters what his reasoning is, too, as it relates to just being lucky (or as I tell my nieces when they’re studying for a science class and guess the right answer: if you’re right for the wrong reasons, you’re still wrong.)
If you read his books, there’s an awful lot of hand waving and re- or mis-defining of terms to suit his arguments. It’s the sort of stuff that wouldn’t fly in a HS thesis paper, never mind as something marketed to bright minds.
- drcode 9y agoThe article we're discussing is about rating the accuracy of Kurzweil's predictions, it is not about the soundness of his reasoning. I agree that regardless of how we rate his predictions, the strategy he used to make those predictions has issues of its own.