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the last invention we would ever need…
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the last invention we would ever need…

A superintelligent computer would be the last invention humanity could ever want. Figuratively and literally.

and we’re back on the air by popular demand…
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and we’re back on the air by popular demand…

Didn't get enough Singularity debates on the air last time? George Dvorsky and I are back...

come on ray, now it’s just getting embarrassing
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come on ray, now it’s just getting embarrassing

The Prophet of the Singularity returns with a hopeful sermon on our impending computer-aided immortality.

when philosophy meets artificial intelligence
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when philosophy meets artificial intelligence

Computer scientist Jaron Lanier wants to you remind you not to worship technology as a panacea to all the world's ills, albeit in a very bizarre, rambling way...

in skeptical defense of transhumanism…
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in skeptical defense of transhumanism…

It's one thing to criticize junk science or lack of detail when it comes to transhumanism. It's something else to dismiss the entire concept based on glorified statism and fatalism.

get ready for the singularity with a mind file
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get ready for the singularity with a mind file

A Singularitarian group wants to make you immortal using nothing more than all your secrets and keepsakes...

we interrupt your regular transmission…
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we interrupt your regular transmission…

We interrupt our normal update to bring you a message from the post-Singularity future.

the technological singularity, revisited again
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the technological singularity, revisited again

Advocates of the supposedly incoming Technological Singularity have been long on talk but short on detail and seem to see no reason to reverse this trend.

the daily galaxy embraces the singuarity
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the daily galaxy embraces the singuarity

The Daily Galaxy takes up preaching the gospel of the Singularity to its fans while dodging the sketchy history and problematic future of the concept.

transhumanists at h+ vs. a skeptical biologist
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transhumanists at h+ vs. a skeptical biologist

A biologist tried to give a neuroscience lesson to the utopian futurists at H+ and they did not take it well.

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