Winning Slowly

Reading Ray Kurzweil’s prognostications about the future—and coming to terms with his ruthless optimism. The Age of Spiritual Machines, Ray Kurzweil Show Notes Things mentioned on the show The Age of Intelligent Machines Moore’s Law Universal constants, and especially the speed of light You Are Not a Gadget, by Jaron Lanier The Shallows, by Nicholas Carr René Descartes Ludwig Wittgenstein Paul Feyerabend Thomas Kuhn and particularly The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Daniel Dennett Pentium III and Core i7s Turing test and Alan Turing John Searle’s Chinese Room Argument: “Minds, Brains and Programs” a helpful deep dive Chris’ blog post about it in 2018 Lanier via Jacobs, 59th thesis Google’s Calico project Upcoming books May: Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton (and the movie!) June: Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness, Simone Brown Music “King of Thumbs” by Alex Dowling “Winning Slowly Theme” by Chris Krycho. Sponsors Many thanks to the people who help us make this show possible by their