Domain infos www.betterhumans.com

I really really hope this isn't just an extravagant pitch for funding.

A poorly written but still interesting post at Betterhumans examines future scenarios.

Debating the ethics of animal uplift.

Not quite what it sounds like, but still very interesting.

Post-title-of-the-day award goes to Betterhumans, who ask some interesting questions about a news story regarding the medical reanimation of dogs that have been dead for three hours. Really.

Will the development of robotic workforces in Communist countries provoke a new cold war of ideologies? I'm not sure whether this post is for or against, but it certainly has some interesting points t

"...once this method is improved and the technology refined, would unobtrusive electrodes be able to pass microcurrents through our heads whenever we need enhanced memory during the day?"

Monster link round-up from Brian Wang. Some great stuff in there.

"Should we observe signs of consciousness in machines is it therefore logical to assume that society will naturally issue moral precepts of a similar weight onto our silicon-brained companions? I

"Dwave Systems has fixed the dates for the demo of their Orion quantum computing system. [...] This 16 qubit system is the beginning of commercially usable and useful quantum computers." Thi