Ray Kurzweil on Bill Maher

2 Post author: MatthewBaker 18 June 2011 05:17AM

Finally, a T.V. source talking about the singularity in terms my parents will understand. Next step---> Convince them to sign up for cryonics.

http://www.hbo.com/real-time-with-bill-maher/index.html

Comments (7)

Comment author: Manfred 18 June 2011 05:41:38AM *  1 point [-]

Link? More than once sentence? Please? Question mark?

Comment author: MatthewBaker 18 June 2011 05:49:44AM *  1 point [-]

Working on it ^^ i wanted to get it out there so people could turn to HBO, and this is discussion so i don't really focus on the complex trains of thought.

Comment author: saturn 18 June 2011 07:06:38AM 0 points [-]

Here, if you're a scofflaw and want to watch it.

Comment author: nazgulnarsil 22 June 2011 08:35:53AM 0 points [-]

who wants their parents around for thousands of years? :p

Comment author: MixedNuts 22 June 2011 08:39:31AM 1 point [-]

Reversal test: would you murder your parents if a legal loophole allowed it and they'd otherwise live for thousands of years?If yes, would you accept not doing it because if they can predict you will they will choose not to have children and defecting on acausal trade makes you less likely to exist?

Comment author: nazgulnarsil 22 June 2011 09:29:49AM 0 points [-]

You can prefer realities where certain things happen even if you wouldn't have done that thing yourself.

also it was a joke.

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 18 June 2011 10:04:33PM *  0 points [-]

talking about the singularity in terms my parents will understand.

I don't think this video does enough to bridge the inferential distance; a q&a session is the wrong format to do that anyway.