From the Internet to Skynet
David Yerle read recently that Big Data is becoming a global nervous system. The constant stream of information is gathered into billions of nodes which process it in a matter not unlike our brain....
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Simulations and the Meaning of Life
English: Snapshot from a simulation of large scale structure formation in a ΛCDM universe. The size of the box is (50 h -1 Mpc) 3 . Run using GADGET (GPL software) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Some...
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Futurist Humor
I spent some time today looking for futurist humor. I was a bit disappointed: it was hard to find anything even remotely funny. After different combined searches using a myriad of keywords, I ended up...
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The War between Mind and Matter
There is a war going on. It is a silent, victimless war. It is a war that started long ago, before there were any humans on Earth. Before there were living organisms. It is the war between mind and...
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Proof That There Is a God and a Heaven
This post is part of a series called the Anti-Week. If you don’t know what it’s about, please read this before you continue! So here’s where I argue there’s a God. Now, because I’m a rationalist and a...
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Using Technology to Modify Desires
I recently ran into this article from Noahpinion, an economics blog with a penchant for science fiction that I highly recommend. He spoke about something he called D-Mod or “desire-modification...
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