Comments by "bighand69" (@bighands69) on "Ray Kurzweil: Singularity, Superintelligence, and Immortality | Lex Fridman Podcast #321" video.

  1. That is what you think.
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  2. Medical doctors can operate with much higher levels of success as can engineers and so on with the use of a smartphone. There are pattern recognition programs that can enable people to identify plants. Better informed could be one way of saying a person gets smarter with the use of a phone.
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  3. Intelligent thought and talking is not for everybody.
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  4. He is basic it on the idea of a Von Neumann universal constructor rather than the versions you are thinking about in science fiction. Most of the ideas you see in science fiction originate with this guy only he is viewing them from a point of science and engineering.
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  5. He does not need the money from the books as he is already very wealthy. His ideas of 2029 and 2045 are not that vague in his books if you have ever read them.
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  6. Ray clearly states that the google engineer was off but his assertion of 2029 has been his prediction for the last 40 years. What if what he predicts happens in 2039 does that mean he is wrong?
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  7. Moore's law is still operational.
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  8. How about being a 74 year old man who maybe tired and has been on the move.
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  9. Not everybody will have their brain hooked up. There will be people not using any sort of brain interface and then there will be people using an interface that is a private self contained system and others that will be using an internet type connection. Some people may just be happy using an external computer but use the most advanced medicine to stay healthy.
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  10.  @vanessa1569  But how do you decide what the ethics are before you even know how to use the technology. There are ethics that we all naturally understand today because of her physical world experience.
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  11.  @vanessa1569  Murder is very obvious and is something we all understand. Doing a VR experience where you travel back to when you were 18 years of age is not as obvious because we have never experienced such a thing or even know what it is like. There are many things that are obvious and then things we do not even know will happen.
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  12.  @vanessa1569  You only say that because you have no frame of reference when it comes to Vr and the advanced technology that he is referring to. There will come a point when AI characters in VR will be indistinguishable from a human and there will be the ability to have that character take a body in the real world that will not be a simple robot made out of wires but will have a body made up of cells like a human. Things can get very complex and very weird and will intersect with your concerns of replicating humans.
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  13. By ethical do you mean your choice to judge something?
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  14. Kurzweil puts forward logical arguments.
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  15. It is unlikely that you have the technical background to question his ideas.
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  16. The exponential growth of intelligent life that uses the raw materials of the universe most certainly would allow for that to spread out in century's.
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  17. You will have that choice.
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  18. They are very difficult to stray from.
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  19. Why would he worry about something like that?
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  20. So should all of it be stopped?
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  21. His desire to stay alive is not connected with the singularity as a concept. Biotechnology and data driven AI will be the tools used for staying alive. The singularity is a much wider concept that looks to be happening based on the progress of science and technology.
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