https://futurism.com/kurzweil-claims-that-the-singularity-will-happen-by-2045/
Me in responce to article...
Can't
stand this guy - read his books decades ago and the singularity keeps
getting pushed up years and years - point is when the cyborgs take over
he will be dead. He is a myopic, boring atheist that thinks humans can
improve upon nature that God created and
took 4 billion years of hyper-complex inter connected ecosytems to
evolve - only to have humans ruin in within 100 years of so called
progress. So sick of the secular extremism that rules the world. For
every great thing that science has accomplished - it has caused as much
and even more destruction - can you say Fukishima radiation as in
millions and millions of tons of nuclear waste being created every day
for 5 years now? Or how about the 80,000 untested toxic chemicals
created since WWII - can you say skyrocketing cancer and chronic illness
rates? Yes - it is causation - if you are honest with yourself. Science
has a very dark side that no one seems to talk about - as long as we
have our comfy pads - and computers and gadgets - millions of tons of
more toxic waste into landfills - 7.3 billion and counting - humans are a
virus on the earth - Mother Nature is getting upset and we are over due
for a huge catastrophic volcano event - that will do some serious
damage - We better get it togehter asap or things are going to get real
ugly - sorry to be the voice of doom but nonspiritual secular priests
like this annoying Kurzweil guy really get me pissed off.
Reply from A Computer Science Guy Brit C. from Colorado...
Science
has saved far more lives than it has harmed. Until we came up with a
vaccine, smallpox was killing a million people a year. Our farming
technology feeds billions. Lifespans are longer than they've ever been.
Women used to die in childbirth regularly. If I remember correctly,
something like 1 in 8 women used to die in childbirth. And roughly half
of all children used to die before the age of 5. Those things rarely
ever happen anymore, and we can thank science.
My reply to his...
Yes
- humans like all other animals died more often before the arrogant
Western post Enlightenment domination and total devastation of nature -
when humans were in balance with nature for better and worse. Fear of
death has not stopped it (inevitable death) from happening. Yes - half
would die young but in certain parts of the world post Agriculture age -
like the Mediterranean and Asia - many lived to be very old like today -
diet. active lifestyle and luck of peaceful pocket of geo-politcal
location etc. The majority died at 40 meme is overly used and only
partially true - do the research. Everything is artificial and toxic -
life is lengthened for the majority but has quality of life with so much
cancer and chronic ailments and depression? And are you forgetting the
military technology in the last few hundred years that has killed
hundreds of millions? I am not anti-science but more for responsible,
ethical and ecologically minded long view science and not for profit by
any means necessary - with creepy no integrity people in lab coats
doing the dirty work for corporations - which is the norm for the last
100 years - and look where this has gotten us - 6th great extinction and
the impending disaster of global warming. We need to slow down and
reassess what we as humans require for healthy non-toxic happiness for
all humanity and all the other creatures that occupy this small planet.
Be true stewards on this spacehip earth - there is no plan b and MArs is
a long, long way off and will be a horrible bio-dome existence anyway -
no thanks! The current growth by any means necessary model of
capitalism is not sustainable and part of this is science putting on the
brakes. Take medical science - there's no money in cures but only in
ongoing expensive toxic fixes (pills & procedures). This health care
model sucks. How many gadgets do we need to be happy?
One
of my science heroes is Jonas Salk who created the Polio vaccine and
gave the patent to the public - where are people of this high integrity
and values nowadays? Science is only as helpful and good as the people
doing it otherwise it's a scary cirlce of myopic and dangerous Dr
Frankensteins - which is what we have today for the most part - I knwo
there a few exceptions but they are the outliers. God bless this mess!
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