/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11645220
lil bit of both.

>>11645221
Elaborate
Are his future predictions feasible or not?
Does he exaggerate a lot for marketing purposes?
Also he's definitely a vampire

We're going to reORganize the vast amount of computation in this rock, to make it useful. And it wont just be raw computation. We'll inFUse it with exquisitely intelligent software vastly greater than our intelligence today, with all the knowledge of the human machine civilization. This rock, is going to be a trillion trillion times more powerful than all biological human brains today.
We call matter and energy, reORganized in this way, computROnium.

>>11645220
Take any time length prediction he makes and multiply it by 5x and it might be accurate. The guy wants to prolong his lifespan so badly he's deluded himself into believing drastic lifespan increases are just around the corner. But he probably knowingly lies to sell books to the public, but I think the biggest lies are told to himself.

>>11645220
>Singularity University, which we discussed in Part VI of Chapter One of this book, purportedly was created to help technophiles "guide research" and "shape the advances" so that technology would "improve society." We pointed out that Singularity University served in practice to promote the interests of technology-orientated businessmen, and we expressed doubt that the majority of technophiles fully believed in the drivel about "shaping the advances" to "improve society." It does seem, however, that the techies -the subset of the technophiles that we specified at the beginning of this Part V of the present chapter-are entirely sincere in their belief that organizations like Singularity University will help them to "shape the advances" of technology and keep the technological society on the road to a utopian future. A utopian future will have to exclude the competitive processes that would deprive the techies of their thousand-year life-span. But we showed in Chapter One that the development of our society can never be subject to rational control: The techies won't be able to "shape the advances" of technology, guide the course of technological progress, or exclude the intense competition that will eliminate nearly all techies in short order.

>>11645258
>In view of everything we've said up to this point, and in view moreover of the fact that the techies' vision of the future is based on pure speculation and is unsupported by evidence, one has to ask how they can believe in that vision. Some techies, e.g. , Kurzweil, do concede a slight degree of uncertainty as to whether their expectations for the future will be realized, but this seems to be no more than a sop that they throw to the skeptics, something they have to concede in order to avoid making themselves too obviously ridiculous in the eyes of rational people. Despite their pro forma admission of uncertainty, it's clear that most techies confidently expect to live for many centuries, if not forever, in a world that will be in some vaguely defined sense a utopia. Thus Kurzweil states flatly: "We will be able to live as long as we want... ." He adds no qualifiers-no "probably," no "if things turn out as expected." His whole book reveals a man intoxicated with a vision of the future in which, as an immortal machine, he will participate in the conquest of the universe. In fact, Kurzweil and other techies are living in a fantasy world.

>>11645220
If Google hired him, he must be a fraud.