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Re:Ray Kurzweil: AI is still on course to outpace human inte... by CuriousSkeptic on Monday January 21, 2019 @04:49PM (#18963932)
Isn’t his argument basically that humans suck at estimating exponential growth, tending to be biased towards a linear expectation?

Wait but why had a nice article series digging a bit deeper into that https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revol...

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Re:Ray Kurzweil: AI is still on course to outpace human inte... by seiferteric on Monday January 21, 2019 @09:06PM (#18965456)
It's kind of funny since I would say the singularity is a result of being bad at estimating exponential growth, since all exponential growth eventually hits some limiting factor and slows down, like a sigmoid.
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