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The singularity prediction relies on a trend of technological advances that is ever increasing. The only thing it forgets is that resources are not infinite. Hey, bacteria on a plate grow exponentially, but eventually they run out of resources and just die.
That's the tough thing. Maybe the only way to know God is to become God, at which point we just take it all for granted, like any other technology we integrate into our lives.
"God is who he is, and our challenge should be to know Him, not try to create Him." That's the tough thing. Maybe the only way to know God is to become God, at which point we just take it all for granted, like any other technology we integrate into our lives.
The singularity prediction relies on a trend of technological advances that is ever increasing. The only thing it forgets is that resources are not infinite. Hey, bacteria on a plate grow exponentially, but eventually they run out of resources and just die.
Maybe the universe is a closed system, but reaching the "Singularity" before we reach maximum entropy is probably more likely.
Those pills those guys were taking ... they think that they will make 'em live forever ?
This article in Wired goes into a little detail about his pill regiment: http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/16-04/ff_kurzwei...
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This article in Wired goes into a little detail about his pill regiment: http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/16-04/ff_kurzwei...
Too bad no medical studies support the idea that taking vitamins improves health: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/news-keeps-getting-...
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Too bad no medical studies support the idea that taking vitamins improves health: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/news-keeps-getting-...
"no medical studies"? That seems like a very interesting claim, but the article you linked doesn't support it much, instead just listing a few studies which found that specific vitamins failed to improve health in specific areas.
If taking vitamins regularly was something that improved our health, we should be able to measure that. But as far as I know, we haven't been able to.
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"no medical studies"? That seems like a very interesting claim, but the article you linked doesn't support it much, instead just listing a few studies which found that specific vitamins failed to improve health in specific areas.
Have you heard of any? I haven't. If taking vitamins regularly was something that improved our health, we should be able to measure that. But as far as I know, we haven't been able to.
"Usage patterns, health, and nutritional status of long-term multiple dietary supplement users: a cross-sectional study"
It was conducted by researchers from the University of California (Berkeley)
"[Kurzweil] says computers will have human consciousness in 25 years." 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?
Serious question--how does the struggling global economy factor into all of this? I'd think it would, at the very least, postpone a technological singularity.