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Yeah - here's a talk from 2007 where he slams Kurzweil (a bit unfairly imo). http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8832143373632003914 http://video.google.co
by queensnake 18y ago
Yeah - here's a talk from 2007 where he slams Kurzweil (a bit unfairly imo).
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8832143373632003914 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8832143373632003914
Particularly, where he says that there is no 'knee' of an exponential curve - well duh, where the slope hits 1. I get the impression that he's a bit lost to life since his wife died.
- hugh 18y agoI was in the audience for that talk, it was brilliant. Hofstader gave the second talk (first was Kurzweil) at the Singularity Summit, and completely yet classily trashed Kurzweil's talk, including his apparent failure to understand basic mathematics (of course there's no "knee" in an exponential curve, you can just rescale the axes to put the "knee" somewhere else). Bad, bad haircut though.
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- queensnake 18y agoWell, so, just choose units that are meaningful to you, and stick with the knee that falls out of that.