DaFranker comments on Kurzweil's predictions: good accuracy, poor self-calibration - Less Wrong
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I'm very much of mind that scoring this way was the correct course, since the predictions are cunjunctive, and for any prediction to be strong evidence for his overarching claims all its parts must be coherent and true. Intuitively, applying Occam's Razor should, IMO, produce the results you've obtained.