Futurist-Inventor Ray Kurzweil sees a world coming where humans merge with technology allowing us to literally upgrade our life span and intelligence. Considering his predictions about the future have been right about 86% of the time, we’d be wise to listen. While this idea makes some nervous Ray believes A.I. surpassing our own intelligence is the only way for mankind to take the next step forward. The author of “How to Create A Mind” discusses his optimism behind a hybrid future on this episode of Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu.
SHOW NOTES:
Ray and Tom discuss useful strategies and thinking models for problem-solving. [2:30]
Ray describes his early years as an entrepreneur and gives advice for the current landscape. [10:54]
Ray details the progress being made in extending and upgrading human life. [16:20]
Ray breaks down singularity and why the world is consistently getting better. [24:40]
Ray reveals the impact he wants to have on the world. [32:59]
QUOTES:
“Part of my philosophy is failure is just success deferred and I think actually if you knew of all of the obstacles you’d meet you would never start a project.” [3:13]
“Nothing worthwhile is going to present itself without challenges.” [4:56]
“It’s only intelligence that enables us to make progress.” [33:27]
FOLLOW RAY KURZWEIL:
WEBSITE – https://bit.ly/1hro1XM
TWITTER – https://bit.ly/2jbpk4v
FACEBOOK – https://bit.ly/2yNzqVy
PEOPLE MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
Bryan Johnson – https://bit.ly/2qqelYM [31:13]
Demis Hassabas – https://bit.ly/2tHBfh1 [31:55]
Marvin Minski – https://bit.ly/2MtuQxQ [33:08]
Frank Rosenblatt – https://bit.ly/2g0o8DO [32:11]
COMPANIES AND ORGANISATIONS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
Singularity University – https://bit.ly/2yN1U0P [1:53]
Nuance – https://bit.ly/2yLrCUj [11:36]
DeepMind – https://bit.ly/22HheBf [31:56]
BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
The Singularity is Near – https://amzn.to/2f5NAFB [1:48]
How to Create a Mind – https://amzn.to/2twgyVR [1:50]
Transcend – https://amzn.to/2lxYrum [9:23]
Fantastic Voyage – https://amzn.to/2Mpr5sZ [16:30]
Tom Bilyeu
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Hmm, never heard of him. Seems like bland, general, public information.
Whoa, twitchy is looking like warmed over death. I predict he's doing a Moses impression and only his master's get to the promised land. Well, it's time for him to use PRP, or baby's blood transfusions like Thiel, et. al. He ain't gonna make it otherwise.
Ray Kurzweil is a piece of shit.
THERE. I just predicted the future.
@Tom Bilyeu, could you invite @Sadhguru on your show. He is a visionary as well.
He's aging and taking 100pills a day. I'm not taking any advice from this dude.
I can lucid dream all through the night. Not just before I wake up. I realize I'm dreaming and I realize I can make anything happen. It's awesome. Just go to sleep with the idea of lucid dreaming, and pay attention to impossible things like flying. When I'm flying in a dream, it always makes me aware I'm dreaming. Sadly when I realize I'm dreaming, I always create a sexual encounter with my biggest crush at the time.
Legend
fashion tragedy, two watches, weird bottoms and wig , his neocortex it’s messed up
Should I regard his health as the yardstick of progression of singularity ?
I can get behind certain specialized supplements that give nutrients modern food tends to lack, but "one hundred pills a day" seems absolutely ridiculous to me; probably not good for your gut.
You are awesome, i learn much here, greetings South America
Ok here's my point of view. Humans are already immortal, I'll explain myself. They say that some bacterias are immortal because they split into two identicals bacterias, well they just described human beings. (there are no such thing as two identical bacterias like there are no such thing as two identical snowflakes. The more complex the organism the more complex the differences, that is called evolution).
Is the ego who believes is different, mortal, independent, separated, etc. Once you take ego out of the equation, which I think is the next evolutionary jump, everything is solved. Without ego we understand that there is no such thing as death. There is only a moment and if we exist in this moment we exist always because simply there is not another place to go. We exist in this moment always, in one form or another (Change is what brain-ego interprets into time. But there is no time, only constant change).
Once without ego, well see that we all are one same being, every one of us like a cell on this entity call humanity, we'll understand that new generations are the result of our necessities and desires, that they are us reincarnated and updated.
Without ego we'll don't have anymore the ingenuous desire to perpetuate an old body the same as we don't now want to continue repairing an old car instead of buying a new one.
Thanks a lot for the interview!
He looks younger than he did 5 years ago! In my marriage, Ray is my celebrity card. Whats up Ray?!
Love RK, but the interviewer is super creepy. He seems to constantly want to steer the conversation in the direction of some Tony Robbins/MLM-esque BS.
The high quality of people Google has brought in? Talk about protecting your investment!!! By high quality people, I assume he's including the gang of SJWs that believe they have to censor everyone that opposes censorship. You know, the ones who run things at Google and FB now.
hmm, exactly …if there are other creatures out there the likely hood of them being millions of years ahead of us is logical. Now if man is still around a million years from now just imagine what our technology will be like? We will probably just be a puddle of mud that can bounce from one artificial planet to another
only the hierarchy will have access to the cloud in the beginning, maybe the end too.
I would luv him to be right. Who wouldn't but looking at him he is 70 so he needs this to happen in 10 years. My guess isn't so optimistic, I think everything needs to change, from our health care to our education and it will change, in the mid twenties, my guess. The medical progress he is talking about are very very optimistic. And I don't think will happen for a very long time if ever. Luv to be wrong, hope to be wrong. But everything moves slowly, way too slowly.
Quest bars are shit
thinking before sleep:how can i earn money without working
Why does anyone insist on calling Kurzweil a futurist? He's a technologist and entrepreneur, which is not the same. University trained professional futurists — or, if you wish, foresight professionals — do things very different from promoting technologies and their ideas of what those technologies mean. Futurists assess the range of possible alternative futures so we can choose which ones we should pursue: I don't see any evidence that Kurzweil does so. Futurists critique the future, asking who gains, who loses, and how we can mitigate the inevitable harms that come with change: again, I don't see any evidence that Kurzweil does so. Futurists acknowledge that nothing predetermines the future — that no one group of people or any trend (or group of trends) — creates the future: the future results from the interaction of a wide variety of social, environmental, economic and political trends in addition to the scientific/technological trends that technological optimists and technological determinists seem to think create the future. Again, I don't see any evidence that Kurzweil does so. So he really doesn't fit the definition of a futurist. What he clearly is is an entrepreneur and inventor selling the idea that the technologies he advocates are either inevitable or so desirable that, of course, everyone will adopt them without question.
The problem is that we need to question them. I have a lot of experience with technologies that either didn't work as they were supposed to or worked in ways that threatened the people who used them. We need to abandon the misguided ideas that technology always leads to progress and that new technologies are always better than old ones. Moreover, we need to acknowledge that technological adoption is always in the hands of the adopter: adopters determine what technologies ultimately do and mean. Remember how social media technologies were supposed to connect us all? Remember how some people — many of whom have been indicted for interfering in US elections — used social media to promote disunity through disinformation? The internet has brought us a degree of immediacy and connection that's never existed before in human history, but it's also brought us the ability to spread false information and misleading interpretations faster, and to more people, than ever before. Ask the Rohingya what they think about Facebook . . . .
Technologies can be used for good or ill, and there's no guarantee that the good will outweigh the ill. Chlorine assures many people have water free of pathogens, which is good. The same technologies that generate free chlorine can be used to fill bombs with chlorine gas, which is not so good. If you can't find a World War One vet to ask, perhaps you can reach out to someone in Syria who's experienced the effects of chlorine gas. The point is that the technology is the same, but how the technology is employed by whom and for what reason makes a huge difference.
This is why technological optimism is overrated. This is why we must question the narrative that technology drives human progress and is an unstoppable force. This is why we need people who are able to bring unchallenged assumptions about the future to the surface for examination. In short, this is why we need real futurists who will help us see the entire range of possibilities out in time and who will critique those alternative futures.
It's fun to imagine what technological wonders lie out in time, but if we're being realistic, we need to remember that every utopian future is someone else's dystopian future — and those vulnerable to the dystopic aspects of your utopic future have a right to your answer to one question: why should they suffer for your benefit?