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Yay! Kurzweil got a job. Now can he stop selling those cheap supplements, and speaking for longevity research at the same time?

Number one: Ray and Terry's Longevity Products.

I tried asking their live chat woman what it felt like to work for such creepily deranged con artists, and she cut me off! So I won't be buying any sugar free chocolate from them in a hurry.

Number one: Ray and Terry's Longevity Products.

unless you buy a few cases of these longevity shakes.

Bitches.

Why We Suck at Predicting the Future [wired.com].

Just because "We" do, doesn't mean I don't.

I predicted that by 2009, there would be many portable electronic devices. I have of course been proven right.

I predicted that by 2009, we will have sent a man to the moon. That turned out to be true, in fact it was accomplished 40 years prior!

I predicted that by 2009, you would be able to purchase a nutritional shake that doesn't taste like shit.

Due to the Law of Accelerating Returns some of these predictions actually occur SO FAST, that they are realized BEFORE I PREDICT THEM. But I'm still fucking amazing.

You're just some punk ass bitch. You're all punk ass bitches.

Aside from a balanced diet and plenty of exercise, you should also supplement your aging mind with the nutrients that it needs to stay sharp. Hang on another 15 years, and there will be more permanent therapies to restore your brain to its prime.

Aside from a balanced diet and plenty of exercise, you should also supplement your aging mind with the nutrients that it needs to stay sharp. Hang on another 15 years, and there will be more permanent therapies to restore your brain to its prime.

Aside from a balanced diet and plenty of exercise, you should also supplement your aging mind with the nutrients that it needs to stay sharp. Hang on another 15 years, and there will be more permanent therapies to restore your brain to its prime.

The apparent abundance of sunlight doesn't do much to reassure me that people will happily share surface area, which you obviously need. Hopefully, but maybe not.

As far as the diet, I actually read "The Singularity is Near, When Humans Transcend Biology", so I understand his apparent reasons, I just think that his involvement in the marketing of the supplements is unseemly; that he has both his wallet and his name involved has shades of hucksterism. He is still an interesting read, and his ideas are very much worth consideration, it just has bad mojo that he is selling selling selling. His reasons for involvement in

http://www.rayandterry.com/

could very well be either benevolent or to make sure he has access to what he thinks he needs, but it leaves me with a bad impression.

Nothing like feeling the power of Slashdot.
The link in the article is now pointing to a sister site (http://rayandterry.com/),which has become the new home of the Ray Kurzweil Reader PDF.
Happy Reading,
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