http://amarginofsafety.com/2014/07/29/why-the-singularity-makes-me-a-rational-optimist/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-the-singularity-makes-me-a-rational-optimist "...to distill the secret of sound investment into three words..." Mon, 24 Aug 2015 14:39:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 http://amarginofsafety.com/2014/07/29/why-the-singularity-makes-me-a-rational-optimist/comment-page-1/#comment-40218 Ray Galkowski, CFA Wed, 15 Jul 2015 19:35:41 +0000 http://amarginofsafety.com/?p=1736#comment-40218 Henry, I hear you. It usually pays to be skeptical. Henry, I hear you. It usually pays to be skeptical.

]]> http://amarginofsafety.com/2014/07/29/why-the-singularity-makes-me-a-rational-optimist/comment-page-1/#comment-26291 Henry McKenna Tue, 09 Sep 2014 01:49:05 +0000 http://amarginofsafety.com/?p=1736#comment-26291 I'll believe it when I see it. Not saying that huge strides aren't being made in various sciences, but why, for example, are there no robots doing basic household chores (other than vacuuming)? Could it be that anything of a complex nature is prone to abject mechanical failure? Until we can get past this, hopes for extended life spans as conjured by Kurzweil are only pipe dreams. I’ll believe it when I see it. Not saying that huge strides aren’t being made in various sciences, but why, for example, are there no robots doing basic household chores (other than vacuuming)? Could it be that anything of a complex nature is prone to abject mechanical failure? Until we can get past this, hopes for extended life spans as conjured by Kurzweil are only pipe dreams.

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