> > Kurzweil’s brand of AGI, which is about merging with machines

> With Kurzwel it's probably over-confidence.

It's his fear of mortality, which also helps explain the "merging" emphasis.

Every new Kurzweil "prediction" involves technologies that are just amazing-enough and the timeline just aggressive-enough that they converge into a future where a guy of Ray Kurzweil's age just manages to hop onto the first departure of the train to immortality.

If y'all have seen any exception to that pattern, please let me know, I'm genuinely curious.