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#321 – Ray Kurzweil: Singularity, Superintelligence, and Immortality
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is Life Getting Better?
I think there's a kind of cynicism about... even if you look at extreme poverty, for example. I have 50 charts in there where everything is getting better. You don't want to go back 100 years or 50 years. Things were quite miserable then, but we tend not to remember that. So literacy rate increasing over the past few centuries across all the different nations. Average years of education have gone way up. Life expectancy is also increasing.
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