Accelerating Returns and SETI - Ray Kurzweil (SETI Talks)

SETI Talks Archive: http://seti.org/talks

The law of accelerating returns (which states that the key measures of information technology progress at an exponential not linear rate) has important implications for our interpretation of the Drake formula and the likelihood of finding ETI's in our light sphere. Ray Kurzweil will present this special lecture for the Singularity University (http://singularityu.org) and the SETI Institute.

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Science & Technology

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• Ray Kurzweil SETI futurist
• accelerating returns

[AshiteratsuAka]

TL;DW XD

[setiinstitute]

@AshiteratsuAka Thanks for your feedback - it's a pity you missed a great lecture by not watching it!

[Niquia1986]

Quick correction: our sun will never go supernova, it's too small. It will eventually expand before shrinking then go out.

[RyanB0011]

Awesome lecture. The future is going to be amazing.

[bigfoot799]

great lecture. Ray is always very insightful.

[asgerms]

Unfortunately, the law of exponential growth also seems to apply to traffic jams, stupidity of politicians, etc. Here, Kurzweil's "singularity" can't be far into the future.

[skyblazer7]

The moment I saw the nanobot doing the gas exchange in the blood, I was just awestruck. There are so many benefits to more efficient gas exchange in the body that it isn't even funny, and so many red blood cell related diseases that would become moot at a stroke. It would be much like supercharging the human body.

[linghun]

I agree with Kurzweil, I think we are either alone in the universe or everyone else is far behind us or is just non-technological life or no life at all. Nobody is ahead of us. Maybe.

[AshiteratsuAka]

@setiinstitute don't get me wrong i didn't had the time to watch it, but im watching it now XD

[AshiteratsuAka]

@KidFiction101 holy sht and im reading your comment 2 months after you posted it, im LIVING IN THE FAR FUTURE!!!

[CuteKyrgyz]

@Niquia1986 Never say never:) It might go type 1a supernova, if somehow after becoming a white dwarf our sun will meet a wandering star, and they start orbiting each other. Then the companion star and will start giving its material to our sun, and that might lead to our sun to go supernova.

although the probability of happening that is fantastically small:)

[KidFiction101]

This video was posted a year ago.... that means I'm LIVING IN THE FUTURE!!!