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by rrivers 9y ago
Need to make a formal correction; I recalled this information incorrectly. 7.5 Years into the project they were at 1% completion. 15 was the total amount of time targeted. "Halfway through the genome project, the project’s original cr
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Lets assume you are correct and his predictions are no better or more accurate than anyone else's. Even better let's assume they're all wrong and always will be moving forward. Similar to what I posted above if his mathemat
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by rrivers 9y ago
Thanks for the suggestion, have the PDF downloaded and will read. Since I haven't read it I can't comment on your rebuttals but have a follow-up question... If we imagine a scenario where all of his predictions of applied tech ar
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by rrivers 9y ago
The Human Genome Project is one of his most cited examples. After 15 years of work the team was at 1% completion. Critics were vocal about how it would take 100+ years to complete. Kurzweil predicted 7 years (7 Doublings of 1 is 128). I
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by rrivers 9y ago
It was my understanding from Kurzweil's books that he never meant for his predictions to be taken literally, rather the suggestions he was predicting would be possible based on his Law of Accelerating Returns. ( http://www.ku
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by rrivers 9y ago
Perhaps that is a reflection of a deeper issues? We've been conditioning to assign value to that type of luxury, which of course is nice, but does it add real value to our lives?
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by rrivers 9y ago
Respectfully I disagree with your assessments. Abolishing money does not need to exist only in a commune format; currency is a mode of exchange that exists because there is a natural scarcity of resources. Currency allows us all a medium t
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by rrivers 9y ago
Are gig economies the problem (and the companies that create them) or are they an inevitability? I''d argue the latter, especially as the wave of automation that is foreseeable in the very near future will displace more people. C
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by rrivers 9y ago
This is a good point; but perhaps we need to think a little more "meta" about the situation. In our era of late stage capitalism Finance dictates production - this is an inherently cannibalistic model of economics and it's n
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by rrivers 9y ago
This article speaks to a larger problem with the U.S., and really global system of finance. Right now we live in a world where finance dictates production, rather than production dictating finance. Combine that with the massive concentrat
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Chiming in to fully support - the benefits are clear and until you have actively put the time into learning and practicing it will be hard to recognize them. I recommend beginning with some Guided meditations (just search until you find som