Peter Diamandis on Singularity 1 on 1 (part 3)

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Last week I was privileged to get a 30 min interview with Peter Diamandis for Singularity 1 on 1.

Peter is not a very tall man but I have to say that he has the energy of a giant because interviewing him is like plugging into a nuclear power plant - afterwords I felt as if I got 10 gigawatts worth of energy straight into my batteries.

During our conversation we discuss issues such as: his personal background and early childhood dream to become an asteroid space-miner; his motivation, goals and aspirations for Singularity University; his personal 10^9 project (aimed at positively impacting the lives of a billion people within 10 years); the book on abundance that he is currently working on; his take on the technological singularity and our chances of surviving it.

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[MarkoKraguljac]

I might be wrong but this guy is quite confused.

[ndanaylov]

@MarkoKraguljac Why?! What do you mean by confused?!

[OrganicKing]

@MarkoKraguljac lol

[MarkoKraguljac]

@ndanaylov I am not able to fully explain it in a YT comment. I still believe that his views are very narrow and too dependent on market paradigm. IMO, he is not talking about singularity but about dawn of 21th century and with a narrow market perspective. Singularity is something which anyone of us can hardly glimpse. We all need an update of our semantic reactions. Singularity, if it ever happens, will be something unprecedented in human history. His vocabulary is obsolete in this context.

[thomaschristianreits]

just one more thing.. The rising billion who are spending one third of their income a day on water.. that's 1 dollar per person.. "that's a huge marketplace.." (??) scary dude..

[thomaschristianreits]

It's a great interview, in a way I love where this is going from a technological viewpoint. Until at around 1:33 when he says something completely illogical. Great wealth can come from solving these big problems? By creating a world of abundance? I don't think so mister, unfortunately, this is not how our fantastic system works. Some major changes need to be made in our socioeconomic structures if we want to indeed, survive, this technological singularity.. scarcity is the fuel now.. not oil..

[kasuskasus]

Great interview. Thanks.

[MarkoKraguljac]

@ExtropianMan -continued- Considering tectonic depth of changes (needed and already happening) I believe that his approach is flawed. Individual initiative is important but true progress could only be achieved through seriously redefining economic theory (according to reality not this hypocritical crap that always delegates responsibility to weakest links) and institutional steering of biggest companies toward this goal. He sounds as if he came from WB or IMF just with word abundance.

[MarkoKraguljac]

@ExtropianMan You also think that abundance will be achieved by harnessing greed of DIY individuals, as he proposes? In my mind, thats just keeping things the same and doing what we were doing up to now but this time with abundance/singularity sticker instead of small business/NGO sticker. He is trying to delegate responsibility (done before) to entities which are powerless compared to existing structures and global relations.