Soyweiser comments on We regret to inform you that Ray Kurzweil is back on his bullshit

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That is what imho sets Ray apart from the other singularitarians (fear of robot god optional), he has actually done a lot of stuff. The keyboards, all the work in helping people with disabilities (sorry, I need to clarify, people currently alive with disabilities, not future humans who might have them) etc. Just sad that more of his life is spend on this rapture of the nerds stuff.

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[–] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

yeah, I knew about kurzweil reading machines for years before I connected them with ray kurzweil, and I don't know how much of his tech ended up in speech rec during the scansoft / dragon systems / nuance / lernout and hauspie katamari years, but that tech has enabled me to be an independent working adult for more than 20 years. So I owe him a debt of gratitude, but also, he needs to not be on his bullshit.

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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 2 years ago

I like how os/2 warp isn't in that list

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