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The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
The economy “wants” to grow more than the 3.5% per year, which constitutes the current “speed limit” that the Federal Reserve bank and other policy makers have established as “safe,” meaning noninflationary. The underlying long-term growth rate will continue at a double exponential rate. Restricting the growth rate of the economy to an arbitrary li... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Wherefrom Moore’s Law
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
The Next Step in Evolution and the Purpose of Life
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
The Singularity Is Near
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Let’s consider the issue of just who I am, and who the new Ray is a little more carefully. Like the water in a stream, my particles are constantly changing, but the pattern that people recognize as Ray has a reasonable level of continuity. After each procedure, I claim to be the same guy. If we talk about consciousness as just a certain type of int... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Reverse Engineering the Human Brain
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
The law of accelerating returns implies that by 2099, the intelligence that will have emerged from human-machine civilization will be trillions of trillions of times more powerful than it is today, dominated of course by its nonbiological form. The point is that if there are ways around this limit (or any other currently understood limit), then the... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
This “law of accelerating returns” applies to all of technology, indeed to any true evolutionary process, and can be measured with remarkable precision in information based technologies. Also, keep in mind that every point on the exponential growth curves underlying these panoply of technologies (see the graphs below) represents an intense human dr... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Why Intelligence is More Powerful than Physics
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
The most compelling scenario for mastering the software of intelligence is to tap into the blueprint of the best example we can get our hands on of an intelligent process. There is no reason why we cannot reverse engineer the human brain, and essentially copy its design. We can readily see every neuron and every connection and every neurotransmitte... See more