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A comment on The Singularity is Near: How Kurzweil's Predictions Are Faring (2017).

Re:The Singularity is Near: How Kurzweil's Predictions Are F... by greyswan on Friday October 16, 2020 @08:50AM (#24800284)
The most interesting thing about looking back at Kurzweil's writing is the tech optimism we were all smoking back then.
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Re:The Singularity is Near: How Kurzweil's Predictions Are F... by segfaultbuserr on Friday October 16, 2020 @09:02AM (#24800391)
Gwern has some interesting personal reflection [0] on tech optimism vs. tech pessimism.

[0] https://www.gwern.net/Mistakes#near-singularity

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Re:The Singularity is Near: How Kurzweil's Predictions Are F... by dalbasal on Friday October 16, 2020 @10:32AM (#24801140)
I agree.

It is fascinating though, to see what predictions still seem as likely (though less optimistic) when we go from a "don't be evil" perspective to the 2020 one.

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