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Singularity Summit 2009: How to Not Create Skynet
Ray Kurzweil's concept of the Singularity rests on two axioms: that computers will become more intelligent than humans, and that humans and computers will merge, allowing us access to that increase..Suffering in the Multiverse
Paper about the quantum multiverse. Transhumanism type manifesto about the abolition of mental suffering.Ray Kurzweil Wants to Be a Robot
Ray Kurzweil can't wait to be a Cyborg—a human mind inside an everlasting machine. But is this the next great leap in human evolution, or just one man's midlife crisis writ large?SINGULARITY GAME ACTIVISION HOLY CRAP!!!
SINGULARITY GAME ACTIVISION HOLY CRAP!!! Learn about the upcoming video game hereHas the Singularity arrived yet?
Hint : check the source code.Biosingularity
Great blog about new scienceSingularity Reading Recommendations
"For those interested in more seriously exploring the issues of Artificial General Intelligence and the Singularity, I’d like to recommend the following writings ..." None of which are sf noInterstellar Conundrum: Is Stross Right?
Centauri Dreams replies to the recent Charlie Stross essay on space colonisation, and raises some good points. Lively discussion thread also.Move to create less clumsy robots
"The work at the University of Granada is concentrating on the design of microchips that incorporate a full neuronal system, emulating the way the cerebellum interacts with the human nervous systLearning, Memory, And Progress Toward A Living Chip
"The ability to record information in a manmade network of neurons is a step toward a cyborg-like integration of living material into memory chips."Hard Takeoff not Incompatible with Some Continuity
"So what cognitive and practical advantages would a human-similar AI have over a human actor?" More singularity theory from Anissimov.The Danger This Time Isn’t Human
"The Singularity is the introduction of a nonhuman intelligence, the point where the dangers of the world stop emanating from human beings and start coming from somewhere new for once."IBM performs computer simulation of mouse brain-substrate
"IBM researchers [...] assembled a simulated mouse cortical hemisphere (that is, a functional half of a mouse brain) on one of the smaller BlueGene/L supercomputers. They then ran the simulation.The Human Superiority Complex
"Let me just remark that reading no science fiction at all is definitely reading too little." I couldn't agree more ... but then I'm pro-Singularity already.Is AI Engineering the Shortest Path to a Positive Singularity?
"In my view, if the US government created an "AI Manhattan Project" [...] then we would have a human-level AI within 5 years." Good afternoon, singularity!The End of Science Fiction: When Technological Extrapolation Hits A Wall Across the Future
"As our everyday lives become increasingly science fictional -- as the stuff of fiction becomes the stuff of mundane reality [...] -- what are the dangers we face?" Heavy essay by James JohnWhat If the Singularity Does NOT Happen
"Important note for those surfing this talk out of context :-) I still regard the Singularity as the most likely non-catastrophic outcome for our near future." Precis/slides from Vernor VingWhy, Singularity, We Scarcely Knew
"This Thursday evening [Vernor] Vinge will challenge his own idea for the first time: 'I have some plausible, non-singularity scenarios that get us into a human-scale world with long time horizonWormholes and Singularity
"...since that famous thought-experiment wormholes have been described and designed in a multitude of physics papers - but do they exist?" The science behind the fiction. Link via Centauri DVernor Vinge speech
"In this keynote address from Accelerating Change 2005, Vernor Vinge discusses the potential for a technological singularity..." Thank you, SF Signal.
