Not surprising that today's New York Times article about the singularity launders bullshit for big tech with just enough skepticism for plausible deniability
More impressive: the article quotes 15 different people.
Sundar Pichai
Reid Hoffman
Bill Gates
Elon Musk
Sam Altman
Baldur Bjarnason
John von Neumann
Irving John Good
Hans Moravec
Ray Kurzweil
Rodney Brooks
Jerry Kaplan
Ryan Schaeffer
Eric Schmidt
Charlies Stross
Yes, every single one of them is a man.
@ct_bergstrom He lost me with his summary of Von Neumann as a "computer scientist". Read (or skim) this tribute by Stanislaw Ulam if you want to know more about one of the greatest minds of the 20th century. https://web.archive.org/web/20210215095053/https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1958-64-03/S0002-9904-1958-10189-5/S0002-9904-1958-10189-5.pdf
