I think the path to ai is a little bit clearer today than it was back then. Also, Kurzweill is currently a head of engineering at google, not that I'm a rabid

I think the path to ai is a little bit clearer today than it was back then. Also, Kurzweill is currently a head of engineering at google, not that I'm a rabid fanboy. I agree technological developments can play out unexpectedly, in some ways I am more "amish" than my peers (e.g. no cellphone (I use google voice on my laptop), I have a whitelist of websites I allow to display images, I use adblock to block out portions of certain websites e.g. suggestions on youtube/stack overflow). But on the other hand, the year of the linux desktop is finally here, and with new os's like nix or guix, you can have a much more fine tuned and deep control over your operating system. Technology also gives us tools to take back control from some of it's more dystopian society level side effects. Even if my expectations about AI completely dissapointed me, I still think it would be a good idea to wait 15 years to have kids anyway just for reliable genetic engineering. Also for the record I think it will be a dyson swarm, and I am unsure if our machine overlords will bother "uploading" us, I would suspect they'll keep us around as a museum piece lol. Maybe earth will become like a modern day native american reservation where some equivalent to gambling is allowed and we all get handouts from the machines while what's left of our culture that's not amish amuses itself with our various "soma" (brave new world) equivalents. Perhaps my imagined future world really isn't that different from yours XD.