Passing the Ex Machina Test
Like Her before it, the film Ex Machina presents us with an artificial intelligence — in this case, embodied as a...
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Progress or Infinite Change?
H.G. Wells I have recently been spending a fair amount of my time during my sabbatical year at Princeton as a Madison...
The Taco-larity is Near
Folks, prepare yourselves for the yummy, inevitable, yummy taco-pocalypse. So said the news last week, anyway, which...
Now you can ignore the Singularity while checking Facebook on your laptop
The Singularity is coming this summer to a new course available at Rutgers University. The instructors are father-son...
Useful Singularity overview
Various people I know across the pro/anti-transhumanism spectrum have been looking for a while for good but concise...
The economics of magic pills: Questions for Methuselists
In its 2003 report Beyond Therapy (discussed in a symposium in the Winter 2004 New Atlantis), the President’s...
Kurzweil and his critics
[Continuing coverage of the 2009 Singularity Summit in New York City.] And now, Ray Kurzweil’s talk on response...