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Back on Kurzweil, I think he is a crackpot. Who else takes a few hundred pills each day of dubious supplements?
That...
Back on Kurzweil, I think he is a crackpot. Who else takes a few hundred pills each day of dubious supplements?
If people think he's a crackpot, then he's doing something right because before ideas are accepted, they are looked at with suspicion (Gregor Mendel with his genetics, and Ignaz Semmelweis with his hand washing before birthing are a few examples.Back on Kurzweil, I think he is a crackpot. Who else takes a few hundred pills each day of dubious supplements?
Interesting link I found about Kurzweil predictions in "The Singularity is Near"... https://www.antropy.co.uk/blog/the-singularity-is-near-how-kurzweils-predictions-are-faring/
The author of that article suggests that out of the 25 predictions, 6 came true.
Perhaps for Kurzwell “near” is relative to the total of human existence on earth. In that case “near” might be 30,000 years from now.