Comments on: Books — The Post-American World, The Only Three Questions That Count, The Singularity Is Near http://theludwigs.com/2009/08/books-the-post-american-world-the-only-three-questioms-that-count-the-singularity-is-near/ Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:13:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: john http://theludwigs.com/2009/08/books-the-post-american-world-the-only-three-questioms-that-count-the-singularity-is-near/comment-page-1/#comment-567 john Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:12:27 +0000 http://theludwigs.com/?p=3590#comment-567 I gave up on Kurzweil before even seeing if he got to institutions, I completely agree that structure at this level is interesting, complex, and untouched by machine intelligence. My frustration grew from Kurzweil's belief that we can somehow meld our deterministic IT technology with our non-deterministic, godelian biological systems. He completely overestimates the quality of our IT technology and completely underestimates biological complexity. Hope you are well! Summer hot out here. I gave up on Kurzweil before even seeing if he got to institutions, I completely agree that structure at this level is interesting, complex, and untouched by machine intelligence. My frustration grew from Kurzweil’s belief that we can somehow meld our deterministic IT technology with our non-deterministic, godelian biological systems. He completely overestimates the quality of our IT technology and completely underestimates biological complexity.  Hope you are well! Summer hot out here.

]]> By: reardon http://theludwigs.com/2009/08/books-the-post-american-world-the-only-three-questioms-that-count-the-singularity-is-near/comment-page-1/#comment-566 reardon Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:52:40 +0000 http://theludwigs.com/?p=3590#comment-566 Yup, agree on SiN and NKoS both. If Kurzweil had driven through to memetics he might have a richer argument; ie it is social institutions/thought which are now our manifest evolution and which are the best protected against extinction (see: current American healthcare system). Weave this with Zakaria's thoughts and you have "America may fail, American institutions cannot" Yup, agree on SiN and NKoS both. If Kurzweil had driven through to memetics he might have a richer argument; ie it is social institutions/thought which are now our manifest evolution and which are the best protected against extinction (see: current American healthcare system). Weave this with Zakaria’s thoughts and you have “America may fail, American institutions cannot”

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