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Any of those you want to describe in detail? Reading Kurzweil’d actual books felt rather like finding out the emperor has no clothes, to me: he made a lot of fa
by arkades 8y ago
Any of those you want to describe in detail? Reading Kurzweil’d actual books felt rather like finding out the emperor has no clothes, to me: he made a lot of false analogies, conflated massively different things so he could argue for exponential growth, and made predictions so vague that he resembled a fortune teller more than a technologist.
The validity of arguments for/against the singularity are distinct from whether Kurzweil is a bullshit artist, of course.