Claim · 2011-10-20 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Kurzweil's reply of 2011 to Allen and Greaves states that later in the century a thousand dollars of computation will be trillions of times more powerful than the human brain.

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Kurzweil Responds: Don’t Underestimate the Singularity → articulates → Superiority by many orders of magnitude

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Kurzweil Responds: Don’t Underestimate the Singularityarticulates ↓Superiority by many orders of magnitude

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Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 2011-10-20 · publication Records dated 2011 →
Role: Articulation, Later restatement
Register (kind of text): Nonfiction

Scope and limitsThe figure concerns computation per thousand dollars, not intelligence directly; Kurzweil states that he still stands by his essay of 2001.

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Kurzweil Responds: Don’t Underestimate the Singularity

MIT Technology Review (technologyreview.com), October 20, 2011 · 2011-10-20

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“a thousand dollars of computation will be trillions of times more powerful than the human brain”

Location in source Paragraph on the sixth paradigm of computing

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Machine-checked · 2026-11-01

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Authors: Ray Kurzweil
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 5602bcd2eec6bd9df113dce84264ae36fffe65d9716e06db179d8b39ea4c0e53). Current Technology Review page dated October 20, 2011; byline Ray Kurzweil.
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Accessed: 2026-10-31
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Ray Kurzweil, “Kurzweil Responds: Don’t Underestimate the Singularity”, 2011-10-20.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, machine succession, scale and acceleration (research/heterodox-thought). The quotation (16 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review.

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