[greyswan]

The most interesting thing about looking back at Kurzweil's writing is the tech optimism we were all smoking back then.

[segfaultbuserr]

Gwern has some interesting personal reflection [0] on tech optimism vs. tech pessimism.

[0] https://www.gwern.net/Mistakes#near-singularity

[dalbasal]

I agree.

It is fascinating though, to see what predictions still seem as likely (though less optimistic) when we go from a "don't be evil" perspective to the 2020 one.