>Haters gonna hate. Larry Page obviously didn't hire him and let him take up Google's resources for his "rigorous hand-waving".
No, he did it to get some PR of Google as a mad-genius storage. He also did it with tons of other semi-retired Comp Sci legends. He might also like the guy, or believe the Singularity mambo-jambo himself.
There's a line going around about Google being where "old computer scientists go to retire".
>How does this one-liner contribute to the conversation at all?
By giving a summary of the whole thing? A very succinct one at that? If it's also accurate (which you can argue about), then it's a perfect contribution to the conversation.
How does this one-liner contribute to the conversation at all? Your negativity is unenlightening and obnoxious.