I can’t say on behalf of advancedatheist, but others who I’ve heard make similar statements generally seem to base them on a manner of factor analysis; namely, assuming that you’re evaluating a statement by a self-proclaimed transhumanist predicting the future development of some technology that currently does not exist, the factor which best predicts what date that technology will be predicted as is the current age of the predictor.
As I’ve not read much transhumanist writing, I have no real way to evaluate whether this is an accurate analysis, or simply cherry picking examples of the most egregious/popularly published examples (I frequently see Kurzweil and… mostly just Kurzeil, really, popping up when I’ve heard this argument before).
[As an aside, I just now, after finishing this comment, made the connection that you’re the author that he cited as the example, rather than just a random commenter, so I’d assume you’re much more familiar with the topic at hand than me.]
Thanks, if this is true I request advancedatheist explain why he thinks I did this.
I can’t say on behalf of advancedatheist, but others who I’ve heard make similar statements generally seem to base them on a manner of factor analysis; namely, assuming that you’re evaluating a statement by a self-proclaimed transhumanist predicting the future development of some technology that currently does not exist, the factor which best predicts what date that technology will be predicted as is the current age of the predictor.
As I’ve not read much transhumanist writing, I have no real way to evaluate whether this is an accurate analysis, or simply cherry picking examples of the most egregious/popularly published examples (I frequently see Kurzweil and… mostly just Kurzeil, really, popping up when I’ve heard this argument before).
[As an aside, I just now, after finishing this comment, made the connection that you’re the author that he cited as the example, rather than just a random commenter, so I’d assume you’re much more familiar with the topic at hand than me.]