| Two AI Pioneers. Two Bizarre Suicides. What Really Happened?From this month's Wired...My favorite part - (but you have to read the article first to understand it) - "'Sometimes I think this totally ridiculous thought,'" he says, 'that he was bumped off like the end of Terminator 2.' He refers to the fate of the character Dr. Miles Dyson, who creates a neural network processor that eventually achieves sentience and turns against mankind." |
| The Physical World as a Virtual RealityThis recent paper explores the idea that the universe is a virtual reality created by information processing, and relates this strange idea to the findings of modern physics about the physical world. |
| Enough is Enough: A Thinking Ape’s Critique of Trans-SimianismAaron Diaz presents an amusing look at the singularity and trans-humanism through his translation of a "recently discovered" cave painting manifesto by Thog. Dr. Klomp, the originator of these theories, believes he and his fellow cavemen are evolving into "post-simian" life forms that will posses physical abilities augmented by "tools" and mental abilities augmented by "culture". |
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