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David Chalmers at Singularity Summit 2009 — Simulation and the Singularity. First, an uncontroversial assumption: humans are machines. We are machines that create other machines, and as Chalmers points out, all that is necessary for an ‘intelligence explosion’ is that the machines we create have the ability [...] I just read an excellent article called The Dark Side of Digital Backchannels in Shared Physical Spaces. I have nothing to really add to the analysis, except to say that these are circles I wish I traveled in. I should move to Silicon Valley and become a freelance philosopher. The article also references the Online Disinhibition [...] From a great interview with Ray Ozzie from Microsoft waxing philosophical about the Google Wave era technologies. RAY OZZIE: I think the answer is yes, it’s important and there are a lot of very interesting things. I think we don’t really know yet which ones are going to be sustainable killer app type usages versus [...] He envisions that people will turn to robots for the illusion of a living presence to satisfy their emotional needs. One of those future products is the so called “Funktionide“. It is an amorph object whose intention is to provide the owner with an atmosphere of presence thus counteracting the feeling of loneliness. In the visions [...] More from Forbes: The Coming Artilect War Considering all this, I predict that humanity will split into three major philosophical, ideological, political groups, which I label as follows. –The Cosmists (based on the word “cosmos”) will be in favor of building these godlike machines (the artilects), who would be immortal, think a million times faster than humans, have [...] Jon links to Forbes’ special edition on AI. I’ll go through most of these, commenting when appropriate. For instance: Dumb Like Google While the switch to “stupid” statistically based computing has given us tools like Google, it came with a steep price, namely, abandoning the cherished notion that computers will one day be like people, the way [...] Resident colleague Ben links to the following article: The Philosophical Significance of Twitter: Consciousness Outfolding In Embryos, Galaxies, and Sentient Beings: How the Universe Makes Life, an exquisitely written and astonishingly insightful book, Richard Grossinger writes about ‘infoldedeness’, stating that “the universe is comprehensible only as a thing that has been folded many times upon itself.” Reversing [...] Lally, always on top of the newest and best on the net, linked me to a great feature on oobject about the top current cyborg technologies. 16 Genuine Cyborg Technologies Just how much of the human body can you replace or augment: seemingly everything apart from the tadpole like remnants of the brain and spinal chord. Bionic [...] |
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