He's made a few predictions over the years but this one takes the proverbial cake
Ray Kurzwell Predictions: this time immortality
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Doesn't mean you have to accept it, but I expect several elderly billionaires will pay whatever it takes to gain access. Expect lots of nefarious activity by their offspring who were expecting to inherit.
I don't accept any of these kind of predictions but do find them interesting.
Kurzwell also predicted the AI singularity in this century
Ironic that if this were ever to come true, it would be the mega rich who would no doubt control it, and ironically they end up with immotality, but on a planet they already helped set on a path to the extintion of being able to sustain all life on it, oh the irony. Lol
That is a belief many share:
phys.org
phys.org
-and it resulted in a Unabomber-type mortalist Guy Edward Bartkus..a secular Eric Robert Rudolph
Malthusian misrablists worry me the most.
Now, personally—I would *prefer* the tech go to mathematicians and historians myself—but it isn’t for me to tell others how they must live.
Great medical news
medicalxpress.com
medicalxpress.com
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-and it resulted in a Unabomber-type mortalist Guy Edward Bartkus..a secular Eric Robert Rudolph
Malthusian misrablists worry me the most.
Now, personally—I would *prefer* the tech go to mathematicians and historians myself—but it isn’t for me to tell others how they must live.
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living forever, stuck trying to maintain their precious monetary empires that give them only grief and no pleasure: it's amazing the effort people would go to in order to engineer their own hell.
How does all this stack up with the likes of Yarvin who has Elon's ear at the moment? Have you read some of the batshit crazy stuff he has proposed to happen
8 years? Hmmm... I'll be 58 by that time.
Give it another 30 years to become cheap and ubiquitous technology and I'll be 88.
So it might just arrive a few years too late.
(Yes, ignoring all other consequences such as overpopulation, etc. for now)
Give it another 30 years to become cheap and ubiquitous technology and I'll be 88.
So it might just arrive a few years too late.
(Yes, ignoring all other consequences such as overpopulation, etc. for now)
Its not far fetched.
When you think about it... we have the means to make it happen right now using stem-cells (aka, regenerative therapies), lab on chip techniques, and nanoparticles coupled with adaptive metamaterials.
The main thing is that there hadn't been much investment (nor priority) in this field up until recently.
AI changes the landscape with automated R&D which cuts the time to develop new things drastically, and as its being used more and more, you can actually develop prototypes or even final working technologies much sooner than before and for lower the cost from the get go (well, at this point energy consumption behind AI is the issue, but measures are being taken to optimize LLM's and other more specialised AI's with more capacity coming in from renewables).
Longevity escape velocity (LEV) already kinda guarantees you can live indefinitely if you keep up the therapies (and it should be available by around 2035).
For every year you are alive you GAIN an extra year... so at first you will effectively STOP the ageing at the age you are by the time you begin the therapy and your bio age will then revert slowly backwards - obviously not all the way down to infancy, but your biological age will probably 'stabilize' around 25 or 30 years old (depending on where you are when you began the treatments).
So, you don't need to wait for nanobots to repair your body all the time (Which might happen much later). LEV is the thing to get to - and obviously, its your choice on whether or not to take it.
I actually think Kurzweil here is more accurate in his predictions because of the rapid pace of improvements in AI from one year to the next - looking at where we were with AI's just 2 years ago, or even 1 year ago.
Google already used it to develop over 300,000 new materials - a task that would take humans ridiculously longer to do.
Apply that to regenerative medicine, and you have yourself something better.
Granted, use of AI in the medical field will also have to improve... given the IT infrastructure in place, and bureaucracy... well IT infrastructure isn't so much of an issue if its better used... bureaucracy is another matter that could slow things down.
Still, new medical treatments are being upheld in medicine as is, so this will eventually become a standard too.
Until then, exercise, eat healthy, and look after yourselves (I mean its a fairly good advice for anyone).
When you think about it... we have the means to make it happen right now using stem-cells (aka, regenerative therapies), lab on chip techniques, and nanoparticles coupled with adaptive metamaterials.
The main thing is that there hadn't been much investment (nor priority) in this field up until recently.
AI changes the landscape with automated R&D which cuts the time to develop new things drastically, and as its being used more and more, you can actually develop prototypes or even final working technologies much sooner than before and for lower the cost from the get go (well, at this point energy consumption behind AI is the issue, but measures are being taken to optimize LLM's and other more specialised AI's with more capacity coming in from renewables).
Longevity escape velocity (LEV) already kinda guarantees you can live indefinitely if you keep up the therapies (and it should be available by around 2035).
For every year you are alive you GAIN an extra year... so at first you will effectively STOP the ageing at the age you are by the time you begin the therapy and your bio age will then revert slowly backwards - obviously not all the way down to infancy, but your biological age will probably 'stabilize' around 25 or 30 years old (depending on where you are when you began the treatments).
So, you don't need to wait for nanobots to repair your body all the time (Which might happen much later). LEV is the thing to get to - and obviously, its your choice on whether or not to take it.
I actually think Kurzweil here is more accurate in his predictions because of the rapid pace of improvements in AI from one year to the next - looking at where we were with AI's just 2 years ago, or even 1 year ago.
Google already used it to develop over 300,000 new materials - a task that would take humans ridiculously longer to do.
Apply that to regenerative medicine, and you have yourself something better.
Granted, use of AI in the medical field will also have to improve... given the IT infrastructure in place, and bureaucracy... well IT infrastructure isn't so much of an issue if its better used... bureaucracy is another matter that could slow things down.
Still, new medical treatments are being upheld in medicine as is, so this will eventually become a standard too.
Until then, exercise, eat healthy, and look after yourselves (I mean its a fairly good advice for anyone).
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