The Singularity is Near: The movie

Laughing here!

You are without a doubt one of the biggest idiots I've ever heard! I'm laughing at you!

I disagree with Kurzweil and

I disagree with Kurzweil and I hope that he is not right. Just imagine a situation when the computers can do everithing what humans can do 1000 times better and 1000 quicker. And there is no need in human work? This follows from the singularity. It is horrible e.g. when I work at some company and I recognize that I am fired because a new computer that costs 100 $ can do it better. I am not also a transhumanist and the thought of having some nonobots in my brain is the same depressive to me. If we follow Kurzweil we will transform ourselves into machines at the end. Stop the singularity! Stop the crazy programmers that are trying to transform us into robots!!

You haven't fully understood the Singularity

We will not become robots in the sense you see them today. There won't be a distinction between human or machine. We will be one. People today already get mechanical limbs, new kidneys, even hearing aids or contact lenses. Does this mean they are not human? of course not.
In the future it wont be any different. People will prefer to take what is more appealing to them, such as an implant that extends your life dramatically.
I doubt you haven't even read his books. From the outside his theories may sound daunting, but if you understand what he is trying to explain, it is very rewarding.

Why do you want to trudge and toil?

Why would you care if you "lost your job" because some computer can do it better, when you'll be able to have everything you could have bought with your wages for nothing? Food, a house, a car, travel, entertainment, toys, tools, furniture, gadgets ... or move off the planet if you want something new.

In other words, the same things that will bring us a "$100 computer that can do your job" will bring an "economy of abundance", so you won't need to "work for a living".

Not sure that I agree. I

Not sure that I agree. I imagine people felt the same way about technological innovations in the past. i.e. "the same things that will bring us a "(electric motor, steam engine, fire) that can do your job" will bring an economy of abundance...

Technology has always served to more efficiently transfer the wealth/natural resources to those that have from those that have not.

I am not sure that it makes much difference anyway. My personal view is that this is evolution, and once an integrated, self-aware technology is 1000+ times as intelligent as all humanity, (and getting smarter) all bets are off. We will not be able to control it (just because we created it) any more than the biological systems that form a prenatal individual can control it after birth.

There is nothing that you

There is nothing that you can do to stop it. Nobody can stop it without destroying civilization. Economics rule our planet and you can't argue with progress like this. I am not sure that I would want to. Think about it, you can either die within a half century or you can live on forever. Granted things will change, but they have always been changing. It is a small price to pay to keep the thing that is most precious to me. Consciousness is all important.

Burunduk, the singularity IS

Burunduk, the singularity IS happening. It is not something that will occur if we 'follow Kurzweil' like some leader of the apocalypse. All forms of technology are rapidly advancing. It took 25 years to get from Walkman to iPod. Simple iPods to the iPhone in 6-7 years. One tiny example.

Certain peoples jobs will be replaced by machines. But long before there are machines that exceed human intelligence there will be humans that exceed current human intelligence, because we will upgrade ourselves.
Anyone that doesn't want to upgrade will be welcome to make that choice. Though it is a limiting choice that leads to the disadvantaged situation you are complaining about. But if you want to live like the Amish you are welcome to.

When nanobots are available to instantly destroy the cancer in your body, or the HIV that you child has picked up (HIV may already be defeated before nanobots in bloodstream.) You'll probably look at things differently.