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Those pills those guys were taking ... they think that they will make 'em live forever ?
Other people prefer go and live in Florida or Spain :-)
The book (The singularity is near), which serves as the basis for the movie is one of the most thought provoking reads I have had in a long time.
He looks at various trends throughout history (like Moore's Law) which follow an exponential curve, and he extrapolates the curve into the future.
There may be some arm waving here and there, but there is definitely something to his theories.
Summary: "Most people overestimate what can be accomplished in the short term and underestimate what can be accomplished in the long term".
More information about the movie here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1117394/ The book (The singularity is near), which serves as the basis for the movie is one of the most thought provoking reads I have had in a long time. He looks at various trends throughout history (like Moore's Law) which follow an exponential curve, and he extrapolates the curve into the future. There may be some arm waving here and there, but th…
I prefer the ideas of Aubrey De Gray, because while they require future-technology and future-developments, they don't require intelligence amplification or AI or thought-to-be-impossible technology, and if done successfully would give us longer lives which might be the equivalent of amplified intelligence allowing a way round said wall (i.e. work at the same level of smartness, but for longer).
More information about the movie here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1117394/ The book (The singularity is near), which serves as the basis for the movie is one of the most thought provoking reads I have had in a long time. He looks at various trends throughout history (like Moore's Law) which follow an exponential curve, and he extrapolates the curve into the future. There may be some arm waving here and there, but th…
The most compelling counter is one throwaway comment I saw here - that things are just going to get so complex we will be overwhelmed with complexity and leaky abstractions and progress will crash into a wall before intelligence amplification helps us pass said wall. I prefer the ideas of Aubrey De Gray, because while they require future-technology and future-developments, they don't require intelligence amplificatio…
Douglas Hofstadler (Godel Escher Bach author) says that perhaps humans aren't smart enough to understand and recreate consciousness.
Thanks for the Aubrey De Gray reference. Found a video interview of him here: http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/16508
Those pills those guys were taking ... they think that they will make 'em live forever ?
Maybe he can make a machine that lives forever, but he can't make a human to live forever. There are things that god forced in this world, and it will continue regardless if you believe in god or not. And I think that god forced humans to die, and this won't change in the future.
Hopefully not at our existing schools, which would bore them to tears.
Wait is this one of those 1980s AI-in-25-years predictions or is this a new 2009 We're Really Serious This Time, Guys prediction?