Comments on: Ray Kurzweil is something else http://blog.johnjosephbachir.org/2006/01/16/ray-kurzweil-is-something-else/ John Joseph Bachir's blog Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:57:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Jeff http://blog.johnjosephbachir.org/2006/01/16/ray-kurzweil-is-something-else/#comment-10553 Jeff Mon, 16 Jan 2006 09:42:12 +0000 http://blog.johnjosephbachir.org/?p=238#comment-10553 You may be right about being too close to have a good perspective. Makes me think of Hawking’s opinion about the end of physics coming soon. Kurzweil is an optimist about several things, which ain’t such a bad thing. Look at the synthesizers the man invented. Great stuff. I’m sure some very interesting things will come about in the next century for sure. While I like the idea of living to 1000, if I am allowed to keep my mind sharp and have a decent amount of physical activity (that should be enough time to get better at tennis), I am horrified at the idea of the spike in populations (already at exponential growth) that are going to come soon, and the disparity in the life-spans (and their quality) between the rich and poor. I hate to rely on pandemics and various technological dystopias to balance out the population, but people are stunningly stupid in the large. What we need is more research on making humans more intelligent across many scales of population size. You may be right about being too close to have a good perspective. Makes me think of Hawking’s opinion about the end of physics coming soon. Kurzweil is an optimist about several things, which ain’t such a bad thing. Look at the synthesizers the man invented. Great stuff. I’m sure some very interesting things will come about in the next century for sure.

While I like the idea of living to 1000, if I am allowed to keep my mind sharp and have a decent amount of physical activity (that should be enough time to get better at tennis), I am horrified at the idea of the spike in populations (already at exponential growth) that are going to come soon, and the disparity in the life-spans (and their quality) between the rich and poor. I hate to rely on pandemics and various technological dystopias to balance out the population, but people are stunningly stupid in the large. What we need is more research on making humans more intelligent across many scales of population size.

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