komponisto comments on Review of Kurzweil, ‘The Singularity is Near’

[komponisto]

Review by Scott Aaronson.

[djcb]

Prize quote:

Faced with a question like “How can we stop death?” or “How can we build a human-level AI?” you learn to respond: “What’s another question that’s easier to answer, and that probably has to be answered anyway before we have any chance on the original one?”