Early Warning

I ran out of battery in the middle of the last section (with the spiritual leaders), so don't have good notes on what all of them said. ...

Amit Goswami Consciousness and the Quantum: Science, Psychology and Spirituality Technology is good for allowing humans to do what?  Cre...

Randall Koene Title: Whole Brain Emulation: Reverse Engineering A Mind. Trying to take the big picture and look top down at how to under...

Kurzweil is up...  Talking about exponentials and acceleration.  He's kind of sloppy - talking about social media and blogs taking only...

Back from lunch with 70% battery, so I'm going to return to live-blogging. First up is Marvin Minsky , who is of course a god in compu...

My battery indeed ran out and prevented live blogging of the second session, so I'm going to give a very quick summary.  This section co...

I'm going to try and live-blog the GF 2045 conference .  I may get tired or bored, or my battery might run out, and quit, but I'm go...

I think we are still operating with very partial information here.  Glenn Greenwald has promised that he has thousands of documents from Sn...

The link in this morning's links posts to Dmitry Itskov led me to a big conference in Manhattan that he is putting on June 15/16th.  Th...

A stray thought I had last night.  I was thinking about the compulsion we in computer science have to develop artificial intelligence.  My e...

Kevin Drum muses about the advent of true artificial intelligence : I agree, and something similar to this needles me periodically wheneve...

NYT sez : The Obama administration is planning a decade-long scientific effort to examine the workings of the human brain and build a comp...

I have a little bit more to say on yesterday's gloomy robotics post .  The point I wanted to add is that this will inevitably become a h...

Targeting academics investigating nanotechnology apparently : A package bomb that injured two professors at a university here this month is...

Paul Krugman reminds us of this thought experiment from Keynes: If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with banknotes, bury them at suit...

Kevin Drum had an interesting post yesterday in which he collected a list of theories for why it's difficult to grow the economy any mo...

The term "singularity" as applied to the medium-term future of technology/humanity bundles together a variety of predictions for p...