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Singularity Institute

Accelerating Future has a piece about some interesting progress for the Singularity Institute. Apparently they have offices right here in SF. I still believe that the Friendly AI initiative will have a hard time achieving meaningful success. I think it’s more …

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Nanofactory Collaboration

CRN reports: Nanotechnologists Robert A. Freitas, Jr. and Ralph C. Merkle have launched a “Nanofactory Collaboration” website. Too early, or just the right timing?

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Three systems of action

CRN posts a review of their “Three Systems of Action” - Guardian, Commercial and Information. Parallels to Government, Industry and Open-Source. Responsible Nanotechnology: Systems Working Together Blogged with Flock

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More "everything exists" links

http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list http://www.anthropic-principle.com/preprints/inv/investigations.html http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/toe.pdf http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/astro-ph/pdf/0302/0302131.pdf http://www.physica.freeserve.co.uk/

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Computable universes

Looks like there are some people working on the “all quantized universes exist” angle: Jürgen Schmidhuber’s Computable Universes page.

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A final theory and the Omniverse

I just read “The Cosmic Landscape” by Leonard Susskind. Susskind believes that the small magnitude of the cosmological constant (119 zero digits after the decimal) compared to a randomly generated constant (which is likely to be close to to unity) leads to a …

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Google is god

http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/24/technology/dumbest_googlegod/index.htm

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