A very detailed roadmap written by Anders Sandberg and Nick Bostrom and published by the Future of Humanity Institute / University of Oxford. Lots of nice complexity estimates for different emulation detail levels. Seems like 2020 will be an interesting year. …
I was pretty excited to hear about Google trying to set a standard for social network applications. I wasn’t so happy to notice a serious omission in the way security is handled. Executive Summary: no user authentication! Any user can forge anybody else’s …
Executive Summary OpenSocial applications will have diverging look-and-feel, from each other and from the containers. This is because the containers do not provide common elements to blend the application into the container. OpenSocial applications may not be …
Brian Wang posts a very cogent article about how global forces exist which delay progress and cause global harm. This includes the use of coal instead of cleaner energy (including nuclear), causing hundreds of thousands of deaths per year. It also includes …
Steven Jurveston and Peter Thiel gave presentations today. I found these to be very interesting perspectives. Thiel’s theorized that the increase in frequency and magnitude of boom and bust cycles are a prelude to the Singularity, which would be a sustained …
Artificial Development is giving a presentation at the Singularity Summit about their CCortex and CorticalDB products. Seems like a full featured product to create biologically plausible neural networks/brain maps (CorticalDB) and simulate the resulting …
The most memorable morning session at the Singularity Summit 2007 was the inimitable Eliezer Yudkowsky’s. He talked about three different schools of thought about the Singularity: Vingean - where prediction becomes impossible Accelerationist - exponential …
An alternative to the simulation argument: Nick Bostrom’s Simulation Argument argues that at least one of the following must be true:
the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage any posthuman civilization is extremely …