XiXiDu comments on "Ray Kurzweil and Uploading: Just Say No!", Nick Agar - Less Wrong

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Comment author: XiXiDu 03 December 2011 03:10:29PM 3 points [-]

...the author of the document to which you refer - a master of wishful thinking...

I rather subscribe to how Greg Egan describes what the author is doing:

I don’t think you’re a “bad guy”. I do think it’s a shame that you’re burying an important and interesting subject — the kind of goals and capabilities that it would be appropriate to encode in AI — under a mountain of hyperbole.