Barry Ptolemy

Director of TRANSCENDENT MAN about the coming Singularity starring Ray Kurzweil. Inducted into the Oscar Collection @TheAcademy @WGAWest @AFI @TIFF @WGA

[Barry Ptolemy @TranscendentMan]

If you're not optimistic, you're not paying attention.

[Barry Ptolemy @TranscendentMan]

@TheFlatEartherr Actually, that’s incorrect. We can see curvature. But only curvature falling away from you. Not side to side. As evidenced in this photo.

[Barry Ptolemy @TranscendentMan]

@_StonersRUs_ Rust Belt

[Barry Ptolemy @TranscendentMan]

@TheSingularity @PeterDiamandis Congratulations Mark!

[Barry Ptolemy @TranscendentMan]

@CannaCollectz Flocked 🎄

[Barry Ptolemy @TranscendentMan]

This is going to age like a bad wine. https://t.co/c7dbqRoIFu

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

We're so close to longevity escape velocity (LEV by 2033) that your sole responsibility right now is to avoid dying from something stupid. The next 5 years will deliver more medical breakthroughs than the previous 50.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI.

AI/robotics will produce goods & services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, so there will not be inflation.

[Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang]

It’s clear that AI will wind up funding universal income. Let’s make that happen ASAP.

[Barry Ptolemy @TranscendentMan]

@callipygiad @TheLucyShow1 @KathleenWinche3 yes, all we need are more fairy tales to solve our problems.

[Barry Ptolemy @TranscendentMan]

@Mazzeo @pmarca @andrewjiang Haha

[Barry Ptolemy @TranscendentMan]

Have you seen Transcendent Man?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@pmarca @Indian_Bronson True!

[David Pearce @webmasterdave]

@elonmusk There’s nothing inherently wrong with extremely friendly biological or artificial intelligence.
People should be free to choose.

[VraserX e/acc @VraserX]

Ray Kurzweil is basically the modern Nostradamus of technology.

People mocked the exponential curves, the timelines, the confidence.

Then reality started catching up.

He saw where computing was going long before most people even understood the game.

[Barry Ptolemy @TranscendentMan]

@Erickschultz11 @VraserX That's not the prediction he made.

[Barry Ptolemy @TranscendentMan]

@VraserX @FutureInclined Shut up. Are you serious?

[Barry Ptolemy @TranscendentMan]

@luibloom180411 @philosophymeme0 And yet you can't answer the question.

[Barry Ptolemy @TranscendentMan]

@Sara_Imari Correct. It's a religious impulse to see aliens where we see something else.

[Barry Ptolemy @TranscendentMan]

@Rickylinaress @Sara_Imari I find it very hard

[Barry Ptolemy @TranscendentMan]

@beherewhat @Sara_Imari Perhaps, but this phenomena is a religion impulse for sure

[Barry Ptolemy @TranscendentMan]

@BlindSpotsMag @Sara_Imari Correct. this is one of the many constraints that make it basically impossible. At least for anytime in the near future... millions of years...