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mini. Quiet Babylon | The Singularity Already Happened; We Got Corporations

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:18:46 +0000

What if the private pursuit of profit was—for a long time—proximate to improving the lot of humans but not identical to it? What if capitalism has gone feral, and started making moves that are obviously insane, but also inevitable?

Tags: #ai #corporations #imported:pinboard #politics #singularity #to:fb

Miguel Nicolelis Says the Brain is Not Computable, Bashes Kurzweil’s Singularity | MIT Technology Review

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:03:37 +0000

The brain is not computable and no engineering can reproduce it

Tags: #ai #computing #ia #imported:pinboard #kurzweil #singularity

Miguel Nicolelis Says the Brain is Not Computable, Bashes Kurzweil’s Singularity | MIT Technology Review

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:03:37 +0000

The brain is not computable and no engineering can reproduce it

Tags: #ai #computing #ia #kurzweil #singularity

Lost in the Filth Simulacrum | h+ Magazine

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:16:27 +0000

"Yet what the media has failed to grasp is what 4chan can tell us about where we're headed. The Chans aren't the freak sideshow of the Internet. They are the heart and soul of the Internet. And they are the ones furthest ahead of the pack, leading us. At this point there should be little doubt that the Internet is mutating the human species into something completely different. Therefore it's instructive to look at the most extreme, freebased forms of the Internet to see where we're going -- and 4chan is that freebased version of mankind's new drug of choice."

Tags: #4chan #collectiveintelligence #consciousness #future #internet #memes #posthumanity #singularity

A Softer World: 386

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:35:30 +0000

"Yes. Yes I am the fluffiest kitty oh my gosh ever. And every day I learn how to make myself smarter and fluffier. I am the fluffy singularity."

Tags: #cats #comics #fluffy #singularity

Rudy’s Blog » Blog Archive » Fundamental Limits to Virtual Reality

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:38:18 +0000

"Matter, just as it is, carries out outlandishly complex chaotic quantum computations just by sitting around. Matter isn’t dumb. Every particle everywhere everywhen is computing at the maximum possible rate. I think we tend to very seriously undervalue

Tags: #computronium #posthumanity #scifi #singularity

The Sex Singularity by Paul Spinrad

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:39:29 +0000

"When Machines Surpass Human Hotness"

Tags: #bots #funny #nsfw #sex #singularity

Jupiter Brain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:25:27 +0000

"A Jupiter Brain is a theoretical computing megastructure the size of a planet. Unlike a Matrioshka brain, a Jupiter Brain is optimized for minimum signal propagation delay, and so has a compact structure."

Tags: #brains #computing #jupiter #singularity

Coming Soon to a Theater Near You: The Singularity

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:06:35 +0000

"Ray Kurzweil ... [is] adapting his latest book to make a movie titled The Singularity Is Near: A True Story About The Future."

Tags: #future #kurzweil #movies #singularity

Vestigial Organs Seem Ripe for Transhumanist Tweaks

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:56:22 +0000

"A lot of transhumanist types focus on replacing perfectly good body parts with even better ones, ..., but it seems to me we ought to start by dropping some of our vestigial organs in favor of something more useful, or at least more classy."

Tags: #cyberpunk #funny #singularity #transhumanity

I, Cringely . The Pulpit . Surviving Immortality | PBS

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:39:30 +0000

"The Singularity may well bring with it the end of death, but I am 100 percent certain that taxes will survive."

Tags: #future #kurzweil #singularity

Earthquake Sets Japan Back To 2147 | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:46:17 +0000

"Japan finds itself in crisis, with our society and culture temporarily reverting to a pre-cyberunification era"

Tags: #disaster #funny #japan #onion #singularity

mengwong - Has the Internet has passed the da Vinci point?

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 19:11:05 +0000

"After da Vinci, thanks to the Renaissance which he personified, the efflorescence of human knowledge outpaced any one individual's ability to understand it all."

Tags: #davinci #internet #knowledge #singularity

Technological singularity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mon, 14 May 2007 23:00:26 +0000

"The Technological Singularity is the hypothesized creation, usually via AI or brain-computer interfaces, of smarter-than-human entities that rapidly accelerate technological progress."

Tags: #future #scifi #singularity #technology #vinge

Why Google Is Making Us Dumber

Mon, 14 May 2007 20:53:51 +0000

"Let’s face it: we’re not exactly becoming brighter by using Google. In fact, in the traditional education sense, we’re getting stupider, at least with certain types of tasks."

Tags: #evolution #google #posthumanity #singularity