Ray Kurzweil (pt2of3) The Singularity Summit at Stanford

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Description: Ray Kurzweil's keynote address at The Singularity Summit at Stanford put on by the Singularity Institute in May 2006 (part 2 of 3) Share with friends
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siciliano29 ::: Favorites Drecksflirt, you need to stay away from the drugs... put down the crack pipe, and pick up a book! 07-03-13 10:16:59 _____________________________________________________
Gr3mpy123 ::: Favorites Yes most of what Ray Kurzweil proposes will happen, however he underestimates a few key factors: idiocy, cruelty, jadedness. He assumes that humanity strives to be logical, and that an extension of human intellegence would be logical too, that it would abhore waste, that it would eliminate pain and cruely. Its kind of like the old Chinese curse "May your life be an interesting one." I think the future will be interesting, to old people like us, but 'interesting' is a cruel and terrible fate. 07-05-21 14:02:12 _____________________________________________________
Gr3mpy123 ::: Favorites Although I hate to ascribe a motive (or essence) to nature's design. Natiure's has never been a design that tried to eliminate cruelty. Simply watch a nature program on TV, or watch your cats at home torture small furry animals, or just turn on the news. Why should the next paradigm, the order after us (the singularity) be any less cruel? Because humans created it? Because the advances are exponential? No. 07-05-21 14:12:25 _____________________________________________________
Gr3mpy123 ::: Favorites The idiocy part. (and please forgive my fast typing and poor spelling). I am describing the Eloi from the Brave New World. Also just look at our current generation and compare it with our grandparents. Though some of them (the people 80's old and older) may appear senile now, in their day, each one of them were like Einstiens compared to people now. People are getting dumber at an exponential rate to match your accelerating returns idea, in reverse. 07-05-21 14:26:04 _____________________________________________________
Gr3mpy123 ::: Favorites The Jaded. People have the ability to become jaded (bored) at the rate of change. Only old people (if that) are excited by cell phones or the internet nowadays for instance (if that) The newer genration is 'ho-hum' about it, can't even concieve of a world without these things, so its almost beyond apathy. They can't even concieve that these things are amazing. This will keep up with all the amazing changes Ray Kurz forsee's. In other words the AI will share our capacity to be bored to tears. 07-05-21 14:36:40 _____________________________________________________
IMBUED ::: Favorites in a the world we live in now, this would all be used for control, not freeing us. maybe foresight is what they need to do. What I dont like is how people like this down play the human, and being like a machine, we arint a machine, if you think your just a computer made of flesh your wrong. 07-06-05 15:20:34 _____________________________________________________
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Emily2531 ::: Favorites no, you are wrong. You are just a computer made of flesh. Actually you're made of 100 trillion cellular robots. 07-06-06 02:57:23 _____________________________________________________
Emily2531 ::: Favorites No, you're wrong. People are getting smarter. If you think IQ tests measure intelligence, Americans are on average 17 IQ points smarter now than they were in 1947. And not only are we getting smarter, but this effect is accelerating. 07-06-06 03:01:09 _____________________________________________________
Emily2531 ::: Favorites maybe to Neo-Luddites like you. 07-06-06 03:05:37 _____________________________________________________
IMBUED ::: Favorites humans are evovling just as fast as technoigy, and its accelerating, thats the pattern of everything, thats where everything is going 07-06-06 08:50:22 _____________________________________________________