punk6529: Kurzweil's 1990–2005 books are basically frontier labs' blog posts for 2023–2033
DeryaTR_ · x · 2026-10-11
punk6529 called Ray Kurzweil's trilogy—The Age of Intelligent Machines (1990), The Age of Spiritual Machines (1999), and The Singularity is Near (2005)—"basically the frontier labs' blog posts 2023 to 2033," dubbing him the GOAT. DeryaTR reshared in agreement, saying those books started it all and that after two decades of waiting since The Singularity is Near, that era has finally arrived.
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