AndrewHickey comments on Checking Kurzweil's track record - Less Wrong

12 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 30 October 2012 11:07AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 02 November 2012 01:36:15PM 0 points [-]

I'm up for that -- andrew @ thenationalpep.co.uk . I can probably do ten. Disclosure of biases upfront -- I'm not familiar with that specific book of Kurzweil, or with much of Kurzweil's work in general, so I don't know what his predictions are. But I am familiar with his book The Singularity Is Near, which I thought utterly, comprehensively wrongheaded to a point where most of what I could say about it would seem like personal abuse, so I suspect that a relatively low proportion of his predictions will come true.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 02 November 2012 03:45:26PM 1 point [-]

Cool, thanks!