/sci/ - Science & Math

What does /sci/ think of Kurzweil? I wanted to read some of his books because I'm really interested in futurism, but a lot of people say he's a phony.

Hey /sci/, great news! We're going to live forever! Let's discuss what we're going to do for the rest of eternity.

Suppose now that industrial society does survive the next several decades and that the bugs do eventually get worked out of the system, so that it functions smoothly. What kind of system will it be? We will consider several possibilities.

First let us postulate that the computer scientists succeed in developing intelligent machines that can do all things better than human beings can do them. In that case presumably all work will be done by vast, highly organized systems of machines and no human effort will be necessary. Either of two cases might occur. The machines might be permitted to make all of their own decisions without human oversight, or else human control over the machines might be retained.

>>3947737
Distant future??

distant?

my cojones distant.

check out this guy. he is a genious respected by the scientific comunity.

Buy my books . retards geeks. and new age bitches.

If you've heard this prophet and and aware of the singularity please join me in this thread.

I don't want this to be a discussion if the singularity will happen or not, if you have read his book you'll know that it's bound to happen, very probably in our lifetime.

The thing is, in my opinion it will happen in a way that it will only be accessible to the rich. We can already see this today with the best health care treatments only being accessible to the rich, or anything else for that matter.
That means the human race will diverge even more. If you think about it we've already diverged once: consider your current situation with people living in the poorest zones, or even with tribes that have (almost) no contact with civilization. You live more and better (well, in most cases anyway).
Bottomline is that rich will have access to advanced nanotechs that will allow them to rejuvenate and augment themselves (please, don't derail this too much with deus ex puns), while the poor... well you know what happens.

TBC

In the world that he projects, the human fleshbag will be antiquated, obsolete tech.

Our bodies today will be like Edison's phonograph compared to the blu-ray player within 50 years.

Save your pennies, /sci/. You gonna need it.

Also, learn to code, and study advanced algos and logic. Also ethics wouldn't hurt. Just some food for thought.

>implying you're not Patrick Bateman

Why is it lame to believe in the rapture but cool to believe in the nano-rapture?

Any research I can read that would disprove or counter his work?

what are your thoughts on Ray Kurzweil, transhumanism, the technological singularity, etc

>>2766103
I just hope I live long enough to see atoms spliced with a Gillette razor blade.

Is it safe to assume that Kurzweil is a quack?

You will live to see the singularity. It will happen during this generation.

Humanity will change so drasticly by the time you die at the age of 200, it will be almost unrecognizable.

Discuss.

tomorrow

Hey /sci/borgs, I'm 16 right now. Do you think the Singularity is gonna happen before I turn 80? I sure hope so, I don't want to go bald, or grow old and die. The law of accelerating returns has never been broken before so I AM Pretty hopeful. What are your thoughts?

Indeed.

I'm looking into statistics at the moment. Reading the notes of a lecture, I encountered something about the Central Limit Theorem I don't quite understand.

So basically, the Central Limit Theorem implies that sample statistics (such as the sample mean) are distributed approximately normally regardless of the population distribution.

The approximation gets better the larger the sample size is. So far, so clear.

But then the lecture notes go on to illustrate this, showing that increasing the sample size allows us to compute intervals for statistics with greater probability. The normal distribution is used in this computation.

But I thought with an increasing sample size, the real distribution begins to approximate the normal distribution? That is, the above calculate better reflects reality? In the mathematical result: larger sample size = intervals with greater probability, we just assume the normal distribution anyway!

Hey guys check out this experiment I found.

What would happen if you produced a light in a metal sphere? This light is going to give off photons. The photons by refraction will bounce off the surface of the metal sphere continuously. Are the photons trapped in this sphere? What would happen if the metal sphere was opened suddenly?

But of course!

When will i enjoy computer contacts? From the singularity stand point

Will Ray Kurzweil live long enough to be immortal?

Does ray kurzweil have ocd? I see him blink weird

Can someone find me the answers to the review question at the end of each chapter in the Biology eighth edition raven Johnson book. I need to check my answers.