Raymond Kurzweil says absolutely. I've written about this on here before, it checks out. I say everyone who doesn't die within the next 50 years should certainly expect to live forever.
so are they keeping US alive or just developing technology until our computers are 'alive,' like that CS prof who says he'll have his consciousness transferred to a computer before he dies... also kinda sounds like how we're always going to have flying cars invented 20 years from "now" even though they've been saying that the last 100 years
Kurzweil is an idiot.
yes, if you have a billion dollars you will probably find something that has the ability to make you immortal, considering someone doesn't kill you.
Of course, on a planet with 7-8 Billion people, if everyone could be immortal what do you think would happen?
The population would grow completely out of control as no one would die and the birth rate wouldn't slow down.
Space ships would be too expensive because so much money would be going to food and energy.
It would create a massive war in which billions would die, but the bright side is if you didn't die you live forever! wee!
Ha...
You have no imagination and clearly haven't read the article. It's not just about making people immortal, but uploading people's conscience to a digital space.
That is not going to happen in 35 years. We are far from understanding how the brain functions at a significant level of detail. On top of that, while computers are getting faster the field of AI has been pretty stagnant. Whether you feel this is a dream or a nightmare, its not going to happen.
The singularity is coming.
pooky wrote:
The population would grow completely out of control as no one would die and the birth rate wouldn't slow down.
No way. If people were going to live forever they wouldn't have children.
I do agree with you though this Kurzweil gentleman seems a little misguided. Also, I disapprove of Time Magazine.
Wasn't there an 80s movie about a computer with consciousness called "Electric Dreams"?
well hopefully these computers can be put to use to figure out how to get us out of this financial situation we are in.
TCB wrote:
You have no imagination and clearly haven't read the article. It's not just about making people immortal, but uploading people's conscience to a digital space.
That's not immortality. It's just a digital copy of yourself.
It is funny how the (lack of) quality of the writing makes me automatically doubt its claims. I feel that I have absolutely no expertise within this body of knowledge, yet I doubt this article.
TRON
I couldn't will myself to read more than the first 2 pages, but I sorta catch the drift of what he's saying.
I highly doubt that that will happen within 30 years. Probably not 300 either. Maybe 3000.
We don't even know why people yawn. We don't understand the physiological mechanisms behind distance running (at all). We don't really even understand how the brain works.
The things that exist on planet earth (like human beings) have gotten here via literally billions of years of evolution and humans are still a few hundred years from really having a good understanding of them.
No.
All systems, be they people, computers, or what have you, eventually fall apart. Perhaps we'll extend our lifespans by a large amount, but that is still an infinity away from immortality.
Funny that an article in which the eventual heat death of the universe is taken as a certainty still argues that people may live forever. If the universe dies you will not survive. That's just logic.
long dong silver wrote:
We don't even know why people yawn. We don't understand the physiological mechanisms behind distance running (at all). We don't really even understand how the brain works.
The things that exist on planet earth (like human beings) have gotten here via literally billions of years of evolution and humans are still a few hundred years from really having a good understanding of them.
That may be true but we sure as hell think we caused global warming and know how to fix it!!!!!!!!!
I was reading a possibly different article about Kurzweil in Discover magazine. Even if automatic intelligence surpasses human intelligence, it doesn't mean it could actually do anything. My computer doesn't have legs, and I imagine most intelligent computers won't come with guns attached. There will be no computer like in Eagle Eye that has the ability to make telephone wires short wherever it wants and has cameras everywhere in the world; that just won't happen. It would be quite easy to make an AI like that offline, and as such, humans won't be taken over by computers ever. At least as long as I live.
Everything is online these days; any AI would probably be, too. Plus, if you made it smart enough it could probably figure out how to connect wirelessly to the internet.
eliminate old age, sickness, disease you are left with young healthy and wise people yes this is the future we will be the last to suffer under such cruel death sentence old age I have known this for 35 years and I have no doubt so have many others I also knew the social impact of networks long before the internet the best way to preserve yourself for the singularity is by following the CRON diet
Scary stuff. I don't know if this will ever happen, but it is worth thinking about. I think it is also an important moral dilemma. Would singularity be ethical. Scary to think such decisions may come up within my lifetime.