I'm always glad to see someone cutting through the hype. Way too many people gobble up the missinformation pumped out but academia and corporations who's main g

I'm always glad to see someone cutting through the hype. Way too many people gobble up the missinformation pumped out but academia and corporations who's main goal is to increase their own funding. Add to that the wild speculative fiction of the likes of Ray Kurzweil and pop science "news" who again are mostly interested in entertaining and shocking you to increase they're own popularity and thus revenue. There's just not enough incentive to think critically and too few of the readership are inclined to cut through the crap. It's not even socially acceptable to think critically. It's such a downer. You're better off just agreeing and not pointing out your friend's gulibility if you want to continue to have friends.