tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3590986773618960832011-04-21T18:27:40.248-07:00Topics related to the approach of the singularity.WillOfTheNethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12807537573988194955noreply@blogger.comBlogger111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359098677361896083.post-15220071186165784442008-10-27T00:20:00.001-07:002008-10-27T01:20:46.756-07:00

A glimpse of the Singularity Summit beamed to you from San Jose.Vernor Vinge has a replacement for the Turing Test, more practical by far.The Vinge Test for human level AI...

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Ryan Kuder brought up Teilhard, the Omega Point and the Noosphere at the Social Media Club, so it wasn't really a detour yesterday after all.I think it's fascinating that a Jesuit Priest, Teilhard, was heavily involved in Paleontology and embraced evolution into his own framework to arrive at a concept of a shared mind or noosphere back in the 30s. Oh yes, he had his issues with the church...

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A brief detour from the singularity, joining the Social Media Club at British Bankers Club for drinks and discussion. Social Media Club...photos...Kristie Wells, organizerShel IsraelMike McGrath, JanetLeeAnn PrescottShel andRyan KuderDarryl Ohrt of the Plaid Tour

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Time, the fourth red-headed stepchild dimension, is a curious thing.It's inexorable progress leads us towards old age and death.Yet, how do we even perceive its passage? We remember the way we were.In the absence of memory, how does time perception change. There is one examples of someone who lost the functioning of their hippocampus, or more broadly the medial temporal lobes. That is to say, it

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Life Extension As the banishment of disease marches on, there may be some debate over how long it will be until we frail humans become immortal on earth, but there will likely come a time when death by 'natural' causes will be abolished. There is a lot of discussion about extending life until technology can 'bridge' us into this future, and it may not be as far out as one might (linearly)

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The Singularity. It sounds pretty foreboding, and it just might be. There has been a lot of discussion about how 'strong AI', AI that is smarter than human, may just take over life as we know it. At that point it is just a matter of deciding if humans will be fondly treated as pets, or removed altogether. This is probably a red herring, or will come to pass only by gross miscalculation. (umm, aka

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A big question about the singularity is what will life be like afterwards. Ignore for the moment three different main schools of what exactly the singularity means, and take the position that humans will have direct control over their detailed body functions in any scenario. Why wouldn't people just hook up to their pleasure centers and spend all their time in absolute ecstasy? A famous

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Having seen how groups can obtain good results by accumulating their independent knowledge, as in the "The Wisdom of Crowds", how well can they do through concerted effort? Can people in a crowd will a pong controller to move correctly? How is it possible to coordinate that many inputs into a sensible and effective output? Cinematrix has demonstrated that not only is it possible, but it is

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"The Wisdom of Crowds", by James Surowiecki, is an interesting book. In a mathematical sense, the wisdom of crowds can be (grossly) summarized as the elimination of error through the random exclusion of outlying, erroneous information, leaving only the coherent truth remaining. It describes some pretty amazing examples, but endless reruns of "Who Want to be a Millionaire" audience voting

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