Status Updates From The Singularity Is Nearer: ...

“One of the great challenges of adapting to technological changes is that they tend to bring diffused benefits to a large population and concentrated harms to a small group.”

This was way more hopeful than i thought. Kurzweil came with receipts! though I’d have love to see more on the timeline reasoning.

Also - what a mind!!!! 🔥

“. . . but the current number of active nuclear warheads is sufficient to end our civilization. . . “

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“Employment is not an end in itself but a means to an end.

One goal of work is to meet the material needs of life. Another goal of work is to give purpose and meaning to our life.”

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“News is a misleading way to understand the world. It’s always about events that happened and not about things that didn’t happen.”

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