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3913444 No.3913444 [Reply] [Original]

What's the deal with it ? Someone was saying /sci/ was bitch for this guy

>> No.3913462

I don't like him.

>> No.3913459

A guy very afraid of death

>> No.3913505

>>3913459
Didn't science invent something like consuming 100 live, fresh, healthy vigorous peoples or fetuses a day gives you a week to live potion or something ? A certain lobby should be able to compensate

>> No.3913628

Seriously /sci/. You got any admiration for this glorified cocksucker ?

>> No.3913639

he seems like he was very smart at one time....but age has take it away little by little..I'm scared of growing old ;~;

>> No.3913647

>>3913462
confirmed for liar.

>> No.3914740

HE INVENTED THE kURZWEIL KEYBOARD THOUGH!

>> No.3914742

I don't even know who that is

>> No.3914750
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3914750

>>3913444
Supporter of transhumanism here, I don't like him much. His inventions, great. His predictions? We'll see. But in any interview with him he's quite boring and just focused on staying alive, which I think will unfortunately not happen. He's just too old now, even with the supplements.

>> No.3914753

>>3914742
he's a billionaire who made his money inventing cool things and has a reputation for accuratelly predicting technological advances like the internet and the human genome project.
He's more recently com under fire for predicting a time when technology accelerates so quickly that civilization will witness a sudden and profound change over a very short amount of time. He places his prediction some time in the early 2040s.

>> No.3914761
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3914761

Futurism is shit. Seriously, just watch The Jetsons. It predicted the future as accurately as Ray Kurzweil did. As anyone can in fact.

He's right about some things, but those aren't predictions he made, he's just quoting specialists from various fields and repeating common knowledge. And he's taking the implications of anything he can find and presenting it as evidence for his utopian dreamland.

>> No.3914762

>>3914750
>Kurzweil gained notoriety as a futurist[citation needed] with his first book The Age of Intelligent Machines. Written from 1986 to 1989 and published in 1990, it forecast the demise of the Soviet Union due to new technologies such as cellular phones and fax machines disempowering authoritarian governments by removing state control over the flow of information. In 2005, Mikhail Gorbachev told Kurzweil that emerging decentralized electronic communication "was a big factor" for fostering democracy in the Soviet Union.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_made_by_Ray_Kurzweil

>> No.3914767

>>3914761
you did not just cite the jetsons as a futurist prediction.

>> No.3914773

Personally I'm glad that religion is emerging from its past in superstition and the supernatural, and transforming into Utopian technofantasy. I hope this is a trend that fully blossoms.

>> No.3914779

>>3914750
Is there any more of those Ray Kurzweil pics?

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>>3914779
Not those particular ones, ask Colonel Coffee, I believe he made them.

>> No.3914787

Like the singularity or not you should really read "the singularity is near". It's very interesting, and it outlines the very rational probable course of how his crazy sounding predictions can some to fruition in a reasonable amount of time.