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His story resembles Ray Kurzweil's quite closely: an eccentric inventor with an extensive and impressive portfolio, parlaying his accomplishments into advocatin
by austinz 13y ago
His story resembles Ray Kurzweil's quite closely: an eccentric inventor with an extensive and impressive portfolio, parlaying his accomplishments into advocating shoddy pseudoscience. In Cheiky's case, Google is involved through their VC arm; in Kurzweil's case, he may or may not be doing research at Google.
- lingben 13y agoexcept that Kurzweil actually makes stuff that actually works, again and again and again
- normloman 13y agoThat doesn't mean he's not prone to pseudoscientific thinking. The guy takes like 100 different vitamins a day in hopes of extending his life a few years. He promotes the idea that taking tons of vitamins can extend your life long enough to see the singularity, and sells vitamins through one of his companies. https://www.rayandterry.com/ https://www.rayandterry.com/ Maybe someone with medical training can tell me if I'm wrong. But as far as I know, otherwise healthy people won't get any benefits from taking massive amounts of vitamins daily.
- mattmanser 13y agoI'm only 35 and I can remember when vitamins were unquestionably a great thing and everyone should take them. Kellogg's still sells tons of cereals with those pointless vitamins mixed in.
- nawitus 13y agoI don't find that comparison really fair. Kurzweil makes "wild predictions", but they're not inherently breaking any known scientific laws.