Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
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To Ray Kurzweil and his adherents, the "exponential curve of technology" is an immutable law of nature. But does it actually exist in the real world?
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For Ray Kurzweil and his disciples, the "exponential curve of technological advancement" is the way, the light, and the cure for all that ails us...
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Michael Vassar of the Singularity Institute offers a rebuttal to Weird Things' coverage of the Singularity and its advocates.
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The Singularity Institute has been reading Weird Things and they have some objections...
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The Gospel of the Singularity and its promise of digital immortality is now selling engineering and scientific snake oil and hope to believers.
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Step one, live for a while. Step two, something. Step three, something else that should do the trick.
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Ray Kurzweil's idea that one day, he will live on as software is beginning to take on the trappings of a faith.
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Your brain does not work like a computer just because it also sends electrical signals through special pathways.
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If you're planning to download your brain into a computer, you may want to reconsider.