Ray Kurzweil is a scientist, futurist, and Principal Researcher and AI Visionary at Google. He’s the author of numerous books, including the forthcoming title “The Singularity is Nearer.” Look for it on June 25, 2024.
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For someone so aware of butterfly effects and future repercussions, this dude has 0 self awareness. This was a painful listen – typical cranky old person that doesn’t like to be questioned and expects you to take their word as gospel..
First 2 minutes and I already know I don't want to listen to this guy anymore
Kurzweil is really actually a pretty incredible prophet of technology and this is what he’s known for, but this conversation with Joe had revealed a strange blind spot of Ray’s that I didn’t realize existed. You can tell by Joe’s inability to convey what he’s trying to ask in the last third of the episode, that Ray has a frustratingly hard to understand LACK OF CYNICISM. It’s fucking bizarre how Ray can’t cotton on to any of what Joe is saying when Joe starts speculating about any negative side effects of Ray’s vision/prophecy for the direction that humanity and technology will necessarily take. I don’t know if it’s Ray’s age or whatever geriatric cocktail of meds he’s on or just his personality, but it was very weird hearing him deny some pretty obvious unfortunate features of humanity, intelligence agencies, and implications of technologies that are hurdling at the current speeds they are.
Really…no comments on his glorious mane?
Is this guy…..ok?