• Varyk
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    5 months ago

    He’s been correct in most of his predictions, and wrong about the dates on some of his predictions.

    Yes.

    “Vague predictions about the future don’t prove anything but imagination”

    Imagination, you mean the creative process by which inventors and developers create the literal future?

    Dismissing imagination in the role of creation is as ineffective an argument as dismissing the air in your lungs.

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      No he hasn’t been correct on his predictions.

      He self judged himself that he was mostly correct and then published that as if was a fact.

      You can’t claim VR indistinguishable from reality in 2009 and then call it a correct prediction because we got Meta 3 goggles with Halflife 2 level graphics in 2023.

      You can’t claim Petaflop CPUs in 2009 and then say, well if you add up every computer that Google owns, it’s like a Petaflop CPU (yes, Kurzweil made that excuse).

      That’s like if I predict a colony on Mars by 2030 and then call it correct when a manned landing finally happens Mars in 2055 (but no colony). What’s 50 years and 1 man instead of a colony? I said a man would be on Mars so I’m right. Ignore that I was 25 years wrong.

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        5 months ago

        If those technicalities on two of his predictions make you feel less insecure about how many of his predictions were correct, I’m all for self-care.

        Doesn’t change the fact that hus predictions were correct.

        He made a lot of correct predictions, that’s all there is to it.

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          I’m all for self-care.

          Typical. I show your arguments to be a sham so your response is insults.

          If he claimed to be a scifi author, his “predictions” would be fine. That’s where imagination comes in. But he’s not claiming to be a fiction writer.

          He made specific predictions of what will happen by a certain date. He wasn’t off by a couple of years. He was completely wrong. You can’t pick out the part you like out, ignore the mistake, and claim a statement is true.

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            I don’t see what you’re so confused about here, and you did not disprove his predictions.

            He’s not a science fiction author, he writes nonfiction.

            He saw the proliferation of technology and predicted the ubiquity of many of those technologies.

            He was right about those.

            Why do you feel so threatened by accurate predictions?

            Someone was going to naysay all the people that said the internet was a fad and see the potential of information technology.

            Kurzweil said it loudly first.