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Ray Kurzweil selected human-relevant historical examples rather than potentially more globally important factors and fitted the selected examples to a graph.
Tim Scarfe · Every Exponential Ends — Silicon Valley Forgot — Adam Becker · 20 Aug 2026
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“So what Ray Kurzweil did was he selected a bunch of things that were relevant to humans. So he didn't select,”
“you know, things that might have been more globally important to our success.”
“And then he kind of fitted it on a graph.”Play from 9:12Report a misattribution
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