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Just keep laughing. I'd like to hear Ray Kurzweil's view (he's working at Google and is awfully quiet.) Human consciousness is over-rated. I'm reminded of Mi
by wrycoder 4y ago
Just keep laughing. I'd like to hear Ray Kurzweil's view (he's working at Google and is awfully quiet.)
Human consciousness is over-rated. I'm reminded of Minsky's Society of Mind - a number of separate, communicating systems. To me, that sounds a lot like what is going on in Google, but they are hiding that.
- dmix 4y agoRay Kurzweil was always taken as a bit of a loon and over-optimistic. Even way back at the peak of his popularity a decade ago. Just look at any of the old HN threads, anyone paying attention would have noticed. He's still a useful mind to have around. Like having scifi authors and philosophers. They don't have to be completely grounded in reality to provide useful projections as sources of inspiration and to challenge our grasp of history and growth.
- wrycoder 4y agoHired ten years ago at Google as Director of Engineering [0], His book, released that year, was "How to Create a Mind". He's still there, and that's what he's doing, I think. He is supposed to release his new book, "The Singularity is Nearer" in 2022, according to his website. I'll be reading that! [0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-DGB-25711 https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-DGB-25711
- wrycoder 4y agoOh, he just did an interview with Lex Friedman: https://youtu.be/ykY69lSpDdo https://youtu.be/ykY69lSpDdo