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Tag Archives: Kurzweil
Quora – increasing lifespans
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
Posted in Longevity
Tagged Communication, complexity, health, Kurzweil, Longevity, risk mitigation, science, technology, understanding
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Prophets
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
Posted in Ideas, Our Future, Technology, understanding
Tagged Abundance, AI, complexity, future, Kurzweil, risk mitigation, technology, understanding
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Why people resist new technology
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
Posted in Ideas, Our Future, Technology
Tagged Economics, future, Kurzweil, Politics, technology
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Controling AI
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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Tagged AI, future, Kurzweil, risk mitigation, technology, understanding
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Ray Kurzweil on the Law of accelerating returns and Intelligence
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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Tagged future, Kurzweil, Philosophy, technology
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Millenium Project – State of the Future
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
Posted in Our Future, Politics, Technology
Tagged Boundaries, Evolution, future, Kurzweil, Politics, technology
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Climate Change
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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Tagged Economics, future, Kurzweil, Politics, technology
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$7M to research AI risk
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
Posted in Ideas, Our Future, Philosophy, Technology
Tagged Abundance, AI, Evolution, future, Kurzweil, Kurzweil AI, Philosophy, Risk, risk mitigation, technology, truth, understanding
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Grand Challenges
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
Hidden Toxins
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
