Ray Kurzweil (pt3of3) The Singularity Summit at Stanford

Ray Kurzweil's keynote address at The Singularity Summit at Stanford put on by the Singularity Institute in May 2006 (part 3 of 3)

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[eternallyviv]

An atheist is a pessimist? A non believer is a negative thinker?? Not sure how you concluded that I am a pessimist. Ask yourself why you are interested in the whole consciousness survival theory. Not out of curiosity!!!. OUt of your weakness. Because the simple truth that life is random pisses you off as you have nowhere else to go and death is the end of everything which you hate. Am I a pussy or you? And regarding women, that is everything which drives us. Survival and replication is life!

[LatestUFOSightings]

Exactly what I am doing. Living a healthy life to live longer and I believe I will live very very long + accumulating wealth so I can buy all the cool stuff the future promises. Mostly I want my anti aging cure lol I hope I make it Im only 21.

[LatestUFOSightings]

@VictorphoenixDMvault I wrote that comment 3 years ago.

I don't care about "eternal life" anymore. I want to life fast and die young. Fuck all that futurism bullshit.

[dayoflords]

smells of bullshit numbers to me as if the average life expectancy was 25 in ancient egypt their were people in ancient greece who were helathy "had all their own teeth" in their 70's and 80's.

i know of dogs that live older than 20 and surely even the most early humans would live longer than primates do today.

Seems like Ray is manipulating data to fit whatever paterns he wants and makes everthing esle he says lack any credibility interesting though it is.

[CalumnMcAulay]

Does Ray speak French as well?

[8peregrint8]

all the other people look so bored, one is even on his laptop haha

[lebannerfan65]

Does hofstadter speak at this summit? I know he doesn't agree with Kurzweil.

[shade1978x]

@eternallyviv Agreed. I'm a fellow "infidel" and think that not having a close-minded religious belief, I'm open to any and all possibilities, not being forced to think within the cramped confines of one particular belief system, which are extremely rigid and inflexible in their dogmas. I think that religion, as a whole, is a human fear response towards death, as well as a placeholder for our collective ignorance of natural systems.

[SimplerTimesify]

I won't dwell on this . . . but I'm kind of a big deal.

[Php48]

@bernlin2000,, Sorry for making 0 sense to you. Imagine a virtual reality where artificial intelligent beings live, now imagine if those beings created a virtual reality with intelligent beings living in it and so on. By the way I hope God & Jesus are beings that have access to reality's above ours, but chances are there technologically advanced aliens that genetically engineered us so they could play as God.

[bernlin2000]

@Php48 Are you suggesting God and Jesus are robots? I must have missed that part of the Bible...you'd think people in the Gospels would have noticed. You make 0 sense...super-intelligent robots created by humans will, if anything, be further evidence against a God. If he made us perfect why should we have the drive, or even the ability, to create such intelligences?

[Taketheride23]

What if you could apply this artificial intelligence to word and equation recognition and have a computer take the data. Then, you get it to learn apply and iterate the formulas in the design of a specific system. Once you achieve this give it a more generalized design problem with specific requirements and hook it into a database to iterate the best possible solutions.