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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The idea that simulating a brain in a computer will yield an intelligent being has become an unshakeable belief amongst Singularitarians.
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Transhumanists preaching the Gospel of the Singularity are right that we don't have to let nature dictate our future. But their absolute faith in utopian technology that hasn't yet been invented is misplaced.
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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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Some engineers are convinced that neurons work the same way as circuits. Neuroscience begs to differ.
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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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When you're promised eternal life as a hyper-intelligent machine, it's hard to not check out its confabs.
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Michael Vassar is back for the third and final installment of the Weird Things Singularity debate.
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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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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...