I had originally intended this blog item to be about “the future of the brain.” That phrase has such a smart, in-the-know, forward-thinking ring to it. I thought I’d google a few smart, in-the-know, forward-thinking terms and see what the cognoscenti of the AI, transhuman, futurist and other intellectually inclined “crystal ball” movements are saying [...]
Posted on November 17, 2009, 4:37 pm, by admin, under
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I don’t often experience writer’s block. Sleeping on a topic overnight is nearly always enough to return a free flow of ideas and images. But it was not working that way with this thing called The Singularity. For days, I tried without success to tie a literary bow around a supposition that had fast become [...]
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Anders Sandberg,
Eliezer Yudkowsky,
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies,
James J. Hughes,
Matt Mahoney,
Michael Anissimov,
Peter Thiel,
Ray Kurzweil,
Singularity,
Stuart Fox,
The Singularity Is Near,
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