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I would argue that evolution overall often looks like a "precariously balanced collection of hacks". So, it would be irrational to expect evolution's solution to the problem of intelligence to be any different.

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Evolution may seem like a "precariously balanced collection of hacks" but it takes a long time. As an analogy, the singularity is so far off because our current computing power is essentially invertebrate multi-celled organisms. Computers still need a backbone, get out of the oceans, and breathe air - and this is long before they can store a human existence.

Kurzweil seems to think it's close out of hope. I think he's just insanely afraid of dying.

That might be true if computer programs were subject to the survival of the fittest, which, in my experience, they are not.

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