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 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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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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Intelligence seems to be an emergent property. But it doesn't emerge from processing speed or ability to store a certain amount of data...