re: Ray Kurzweil. Google's Director of Engineering predicts Singularity by 2029

Distilling the human experience down to its purist sense, simply feeling without the frivolous bullshite that's required to have that feeling. I'll take it.



Ya dickhead.

Mental health would be revolutionized. People with PTSD would just have those memories deleted.

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Mental health would be revolutionized. People with PTSD would just have those memories deleted.

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Or we could maintain the memories and simply minimize their effects, or even turn them into positives. Once the brain is mapped and treated like a computer rather than a bubbling cauldron like we do now, there's all kinds of better treatment options. Ya dickhead.

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Are you calling me crazy like Ray?

But honestly, the Singularity both terrifies and fascinates me. And barring tragedy, it's likely I'll live to see it, which is amazing that (for good or bad) I will see mankind create its greatest invention and something superior to ourselves. It will be the greatest breakthrough since cells first came to fruition on this planet.

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I thought we've done this already and we decided I was Mad Max-ing it in the desert against your Robot army?

Am I wrong there? I thought you were super pumped for the singularity?

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That is also fricking terrifying. I have been writing a screenplay that is more the later of your two worst case scenarios in one corporation controlling the Singularity, which I do think is the most likely scenario from it. It is amazing and the scariest thing ever at the same time.

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I think anyone controlling it is way less likely than it being a thing on its own.

Which is why it's the end of the world to me.

Will never happen.... just like Mars, all a pipe dream

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Am I wrong there? I thought you were super pumped for the singularity?

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I am excited for what could be the benefits of it and the fact that it will be the most insane thing an organism has ever done on our planet. I am pumped and frightened at the same time.

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The only way the Singularity doesn't come into existence is if we all nuke ourselves to the stone ages.

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If you look at geological dating of stone structures history says are a few thousand years old, you will see this has likely happened already.

The human race has evolved and devolved. Probably more than once.

The fact that the erosion on certain pyramids and the sphinx indicates it was submerged for 50-100k years is enough for me. Historians may say one thing, but geology doesn't lie.

My phone locks up about once a week and has to be rebooted.

My computer at work dies almost daily and I have to reboot it. Sometimes I have to even unplug the mouse to make it turn on.

The Bluetooth on my truck sometimes un-syncs from my phone at random times.

Siri starts talking if I say someone's name like Sherry or Suzy or whatever and I have to tell Siri to stfu.

My satellite receiver gets stuck and has to be unplugged.

The cruise control in my truck sometimes shuts off and won't resume unless I turn the key off and back on while it's going down the road.

My fridge won't go buy groceries much less work all day to afford them.

My lawnmower' blades don't sharpen themselves.

None of these devices run on air and sunlight. They take shitty batteries or a power plug.

I could just keep going on and on but my point is that "they" need to have more reliable technology and an unlimited power source before Skynet is taking over. And even so, it will crash within a week.