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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Your DNA contains useful information that's read and translated, but comparing it to a computer database profoundly misses the point.
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Michael Vassar is back for the second round of our debate about Ray Kurzweil and The Technological Singularity.
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Its extremely unlikely that Terminator's Skynet, or a system like it, would become a reality. At least not on purpose...
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Intelligence seems to be an emergent property. But it doesn't emerge from processing speed or ability to store a certain amount of data...
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If you can't promise people actual immortality, you can sometimes get away with promising them the next big thing.
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The wars of the future will be fought by robots, but instead of lowering the cost of war, they might make wars bloodier and more common.