[coldtea]

>Haters gonna hate. Larry Page obviously didn't hire him and let him take up Google's resources for his "rigorous hand-waving".

No, he did it to get some PR of Google as a mad-genius storage. He also did it with tons of other semi-retired Comp Sci legends. He might also like the guy, or believe the Singularity mambo-jambo himself.

There's a line going around about Google being where "old computer scientists go to retire".

>How does this one-liner contribute to the conversation at all?

By giving a summary of the whole thing? A very succinct one at that? If it's also accurate (which you can argue about), then it's a perfect contribution to the conversation.

[J_]

It's still a shitty thing to say. Why do you think he's set to accomplish nothing but get PR for Google? Because he's old?

The guy isn't an idiot, and has managed technical teams his entire life.