Tag Archives: Kurzweil

Quora – increasing lifespans

Posted on October 1, 2018 by Ted Howard NZ

What’s the most interesting research going on right now for increasing life span? I suspect Ray Kurzweil knows the answer to that, but he seemed to quite intentionally not answer the question that Peter Diamandis asked him on that subject … Continue reading →

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Prophets

Posted on January 31, 2018 by Ted Howard NZ

A Modern Nostradamus – Prophecies of Himalayan Yogi Acharya Sri For me, the prophet Ray Kurzweil is the best around: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_made_by_Ray_Kurzweil http://www.kurzweilai.net/predictions/download.php His predictions are based upon trends in technology that seem to be largely driving the sorts of possibilities … Continue reading →

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Why people resist new technology

Posted on April 29, 2016 by Ted Howard NZ

Innovation and Its Enemies: Why People Resist New Technologies I am all for technological innovation and development – that is a given. I am all for having individual life, and individual liberty, of all self aware sapient entities as our … Continue reading →

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Controling AI

Posted on December 21, 2015 by Ted Howard NZ

Musk, others commit $1 billion to non-profit AI research company to ‘benefit humanity’ Advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return The idea that … Continue reading →

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Ray Kurzweil on the Law of accelerating returns and Intelligence

Posted on October 14, 2015 by Ted Howard NZ

Ray Kurzweil on the Law of accelerating returns and Intelligence Ray at his logical Best Written in 2001, and still mostly accurate. A great read, with some very pertinent facts and interesting projections. And of course there are a few … Continue reading →

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Millenium Project – State of the Future

Posted on August 6, 2015 by Ted Howard NZ

Millennium Project releases ’2015–16 State of the Future’ report Still not facing the stark logical fact that an economic system based on market exchange to alleviate scarcity cannot deal with universal abundance in any meaningful way. We have the technology … Continue reading →

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Climate Change

Posted on July 18, 2015 by Ted Howard NZ

Continued destruction of Earth’s plant life places humankind in jeopardy, say researchers That is one truly weird set of mixed metaphors and invalid assumptions. Sure we have altered things. We have modified many earth ecologies towards their maximum human carrying … Continue reading →

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$7M to research AI risk

Posted on July 4, 2015 by Ted Howard NZ

Future of Life Institute awards $7M to explore artificial intelligence risks The Future of Life Institute (FLI) announced today (July 1) the selection of 37 research teams around the world I’ll be very interested to see if any of the … Continue reading →

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Grand Challenges

Posted on March 31, 2015 by Ted Howard NZ

U.S. engineering schools to educate 20,000 students to meet grand challenges The two grand challenges worthy of the name aren’t even mentioned: 1/ Full automation of the production of a production facility. 2/ Indefinite life extension – stopping the aging … Continue reading →

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Hidden Toxins

Posted on March 17, 2015 by Ted Howard NZ

Hidden toxins found in ‘green,’ ‘all-natural,’ and ‘organic’ products It’s kind of a – yeah – so what? My old biochem lecturer (Peter Molan – Waikato University) had identified over 200 different alkaloids commonly found in a natural honey sold … Continue reading →

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