Comments on: The Transhuman Singularity http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-transhuman-singularity Accelerating Intelligence Tue, 21 May 2013 01:03:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Richard Warwick http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-transhuman-singularity/comment-page-1#comment-55517 Richard Warwick Fri, 23 Nov 2012 13:26:41 +0000 #comment-55517 "Even by the most conservative estimates, human life spans of 150 years are predicted by 2050 and of 200 years or more by 2100" Obviously completely wrong. The oldest person on record lived till 122 and died in 1997, and notably the figure hasn't been surpassed since. The article paints a false picture like so many others that many of the likes of baby boomers are going to achieve immortality. They won't. The advent of those technologies if at all possible is nowhere near in sight and should not be coupled with an unrealistic complacent reliance on them. “Even by the most conservative estimates, human life spans of 150 years are predicted by 2050 and of 200 years or more by 2100″

Obviously completely wrong. The oldest person on record lived till 122 and died in 1997, and notably the figure hasn’t been surpassed since.

The article paints a false picture like so many others that many of the likes of baby boomers are going to achieve immortality. They won’t. The advent of those technologies if at all possible is nowhere near in sight and should not be coupled with an unrealistic complacent reliance on them.

]]> By: The “Rapture” and the “Singularity” Have Much in Common » First Thoughts | A First Things Blog http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-transhuman-singularity/comment-page-1#comment-3478 The “Rapture” and the “Singularity” Have Much in Common » First Thoughts | A First Things Blog Sat, 21 May 2011 03:48:32 +0000 #comment-3478 [...] tomorrow’s supposed Second Coming.  But I would like to raise a bit of a subversive question: Isn’t the transhumanist “Singularity”–in which technology will advance at such an accelerated state it can’t be controlled, [...] [...] tomorrow’s supposed Second Coming.  But I would like to raise a bit of a subversive question: Isn’t the transhumanist “Singularity”–in which technology will advance at such an accelerated state it can’t be controlled, [...]

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