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user-inactivated · 4435 days ago · link · · parent · post: Help building a curriculum on Narrative and Artificial Intelligence
- Oh come on Kurtzweil is pop-fiction.
I'd call him a charlatan, but he's still influential so it's worth paying some attention to him.
- futurology is certainly not a science
Agreed. I'm not sure that makes it a bad thing; wild speculation has been useful to science and technology in the past, and making ourselves and our world better is more palatable to me than the speculating about ways to sell lots of advertising. It is a little disturbing how cultlike it can get though.