Ray Kurzweil
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About 50% of the way through that we've only did less than 1% of the project.
And people said, Well, this is a failure because it's going to take 200 years using a linear time frame.
But it was actually an exponential.
We doubled the amount of
DNA that we sequenced each year.
So like 90% of the wealth going through the entire project, less one year, we only finished maybe 50% of the project.
And then one doubling later, you were done.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Mark.
Hey, Ray.
Mark Russell.
It's happening now because it's happening so quickly.
I mean, you can say, go back six months and look at large language models.
They weren't anything like they are today.
But when you have to go back earlier and say, go back 10 years, people forget what things are like at that time.
Have you ever thought much about how, when we can think and feel to each other, like what are the mechanics of a society?
How do we open our brains to each other?
And are there, has anybody thought through that?
Massive intimacy.