Exponentially cool.....had many a finger on his keyboards.....

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Fantastic first post, welcome cronyx.

Awesome post Cronyx, good to see you getting your feet wet.

great stuff

Thanks for the welcome. This kind of thing is right up my alley, expect more of the same in the future.

Excellent post.

Lots of hand waving but provocative. I find the singularity argument completely unconvincing (now and when I first heard it in 1999) but it's fun in a way to think about future technology without worrying too much about constraints. There's a lot of excess skepticism from the hubris in the 80s and 90s.

I'm glad to see Kurzweil not only leaning on computer power but I don't think it constitutes a good argument to say imaging is getting better, therefore one should believe all problems will be solved on some arbitrary timeline. There's also subtle backpedaling. In 1999 he was talking about uploading the contents of actual brains into computers. Funny, considering there isn't even a glimmer of physically possible technology to achieve that. Many are optimistic but his time scale is absurd.

the first guy speaking is so horrible. he should actually have learned his speech by heart in the first place. you ehm know em what em what em i you know em mean. laughable.

RE: should have learned his speach
I'm usually not too concerned with the wraping paper an idea comes in so much as I am with the idea itself.

I think he is close to been dead on. He may be a decade or so off because of the high resolution exponent graphs are non-smooth. But besides that he is correct.

Whether there is a technology out there that could be promising for uploading our minds. I think there are a bunch of them but not in the form of uploading anything yet. But the seeds are there.

Whether there will be a machine that will be smarter than humans. God I hope so because lets face it we suck. I must rather have as a president a machine which its hold mission is to make sure that the country prosper than a human with god knows how many golds he/she has.

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