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“If you aren’t a programmer, you are one of the programmed.”

biz — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:09:01 +0000

This quick presentation stuck a chord. We are going through a phase change in regards to our relationship to our environment, namely our ability to program our world. “If you aren’t a programmer, then you are one of the programmed… These are the stages our civilization has moved through, in successive stages of media… civilization [...]

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Singularity Summit 2008 – Open for business

biz — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:10:57 +0000

The Singularity Summit page is now open for registration. We invite you to join our extraordinary group of visionaries in business, science, technology, design, and the arts, as our community explores this exciting topic. Your participation offers a world of powerful ideas, a unique networking opportunity, and access to an exclusive directory of your peers. [...]

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The Singularity >will< be televised. NYT does article on futurism.

biz — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:01:39 +0000

Last week Justin Ratner told the Intel Developer’s Conference that “machines could even overtake humans in their ability to reason, in the not so distant future.” And just yesterday, a press release was made regarding the Military’s stabs into cognitive science research, with artificial brains the size of a cat’s on the horizon. This week [...]

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Pentagon building fake cat brain

biz — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:10:29 +0000

Intel isn’t the only company to have discovered the implications of artificial intelligence research. Wired blog reports: The Pentagon’s crash program to create an artificial brain is just about up and running. And, if it all goes as planned, we could see an electronic chip that mimics the “function, size, and power consumption” of a [...]

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Three schools of thought on the Singularity.

biz — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:08:03 +0000

The Singularity ’08 summit is well on its way, and to get ready for it, I am re-publishing selected videos from last year’s event. I hope that, if you are new to the concepts being discussed on this blog, these will entice you to join us at the event. If you are more familiar, but [...]

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The singularity hits the mainstream

biz — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:06:41 +0000

Last week,at the Intel developer forum, Justin Rattner did everything but speak the S-word. From the intel press release: Justin Rattner, during his keynote today at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, predicted big changes are ahead in social interactions, robotics and improvements in computer’s ability to sense the real world. He said Intel’s [...]

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CNN covers Catastrophic Risks conference, reports on the Singularity instead.

biz — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:49:34 +0000

Words escape me. A CNN article reporting on the Global Catastrophic Risks conference explains the singularity (or at least, Ray Kurzweil’s conception of it) to its readers. …Kurzweil is predicting the impending arrival of something called the Singularity, which he defines in his book on the subject as “the culmination of the merger of our [...]

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Technology Is at the Center: interveiw with Peter Theil

biz — Sun, 04 May 2008 04:05:33 +0000

May’s issue of Reason magazine has an interesting interveiw with Peter Theil, one of the major supporters of Transhumanist research. Not too much new information, but an interesting read nonetheless. Reason Magazine – Technology Is at the Center It could happen with computers. It could happen with enhanced human intelligence, where you have things that [...]

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A breif look at what real-time MRIs will bring to you

biz — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:36:34 +0000

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Bil conference – not quite the opposite of Ted

biz — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:26:57 +0000

Bil conference. I’m at the Bil un-conference this weekend. It’s a self-organizing conference, where everyone shows up, anyone can give a talk, and things generally happen in an ad-hoc fashion. It might sound like chaos, but the opposite is true – it’s really cutting to the meat of what a conference is all about: the [...]

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DNA Network Members Discuss Personal Genomics Service Providers 23andMe, deCODEme, and Navigenics

biz — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:12:45 +0000

What’s so special about 23andMe, deCODEme, and Navigenics? What makes them stand out of the crowd? After all, DNA testing is nothing new…DNA Direct, has been offering consumers a whole slate of different tests for several years complete with genetic counseling and informative DNA Network Members Discuss Personal Genomics Service Providers 23andMe, deCODEme, and Navigenics [...]

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The meaningful DNA specifying a human must fit into at most 25 megabytes.

biz — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:09:01 +0000

A very fascinating post from Elizer Yudkowsky’s Overcoming Bias blog on the upper limits on DNA based evolution, with a startling conclusion: Among mammals, the rate of DNA copying errors is roughly 10^-8 per base per generation. Copy a hundred million DNA bases, and on average, one will copy incorrectly. One mutation, one death; each [...]

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Singularity Summit 2007 | The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence

biz — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:21:59 +0000

I volunteered at the singularity summit a few weeks ago and. It was quite a weekend. What is the singularity? Well Eliezer Yudkowsky ‘s introductory presentation outlined this conception of it: Sometime in the future technology will advance to the point of creating minds that are smarter than human through brain computer interfaces or purely [...]

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Game designers are exploiting the players: Unethical Games

biz — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 05:09:15 +0000

It’s hard to argue that video games are not capable of developing a dependency in their users. As I’ve posted before, the situation has grown so acute that 10 South Koreans — mostly teenagers and people in their twenties — died in 2005 from game addiction-related causes. At a recent conference in Melbourne, Australia, Jonathan [...]

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It’s here – 3d tv.

biz — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 05:39:15 +0000

I’d say more, but my hands are hurting right now… It’s here – 3d tv. is a post from: From Here To Singularity

It’s here – 3d tv. is a post from: From Here To Singularity