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Jul 6, 2015

Does a Multiverse Fermi Paradox Disprove the Multiverse?

Posted by in categories: cosmology, existential risks

This is quite the interesting article, but the sheer number of unknowns that surround the Fermi Paradox, without even taking into consideration all the hypotheticals of a potential multiverse, pretty much render the whole thing scientifically pointless.

That said, Philosophically speaking, it’s priceless.

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Jul 6, 2015

How computers are learning to make human software work more efficiently — John R. Woodward, Justyna Petke And William Langdon | The Conversation

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, software

“Genetic improvement involves writing an automated “programmer” who manipulates the source code of a piece of through trial and error with a view to making it work more efficiently. This might include swapping lines of code around, deleting lines and inserting new ones – very much like a human programmer. Each manipulation is then tested against some quality measure to determine if the new version of the code is an improvement over the old version. It is about taking large software systems and altering them slightly to achieve better results. Read more

Jul 5, 2015

Google’s Dream Robot Is Running Wild Across the Internet

Posted by in categories: information science, neuroscience, robotics/AI

Remember a few weeks back, when we learned that Google’s artificial neural network was having creepy daydreams, turning buildings into acid trips and landscapes into Magic Eye pictures? Well, prepare to never sleep again, because last week, Google made its “inceptionism” algorithm available to the public, and the nightmarish images are cropping up everywhere.

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Jul 5, 2015

Researchers Sharing Data Was Supposed to Change Science Forever. Did It? — Lily Hay Newman | Slate

Posted by in category: science

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“If goodwill and curiosity aren’t motivating researchers to work with open-source data on their own, there is still something that probably will: human limitation. ‘We have tiny little brains. We can’t understand the big stuff anymore,’ said Paul Cohen, a DARPA program manager in the Information and Innovation Office. ‘Machines will read the literature, machines will build complicated models, because frankly we can’t.’ When all you have to do is let your algorithms loose on a trove of publicly available data, there won’t be any reason not to pull in everything that’s out there. ” Read more

Jul 5, 2015

Bitnation Space Agency

Posted by in categories: bitcoin, futurism, space

A publically crowdfunded, owned and operated space program. Follow Bitnation for updates.

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Jul 4, 2015

These are the projects Elon Musk is funding to prevent killer AI

Posted by in categories: futurism, neuroscience, robotics/AI

Elon Musk has donated millions to the Future of Life Institute, and now the organization is putting that money to use by funding research into keeping artificial intelligence “robust and…

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Jul 4, 2015

Would We Get Bionic Limbs?

Posted by in categories: cyborgs, humor, transhumanism

I just discovered that a second 12-min video on transhumanism was done by YouTube personalities Rhett and Link on Good Morning MORE. This one explores transhumanism in a balanced but humorous way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjYbcxeXn88

Their first transhumanism video on Good Mythical Morning is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1PF99LtBLQ

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Jul 4, 2015

First spin-entangled electrons on a chip

Posted by in category: computing

Say hello to the future of communication.…. FTL communication, possibly! (not to mention quantum computing, etc etc etc)

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Jul 4, 2015

Car assembly line robot kills worker in Germany

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Which just goes to show that you should never buy ANY form of robotics or AI software from a company that has any of the following words in it’s name: Sky, Net, Skynet, Cyberdine, and or Extermination. wink

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Jul 4, 2015

The Real-Life Dangers of Augmented Reality — Eric E. Sabelman & Roger Lam | IEEE Spectrum

Posted by in category: augmented reality

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“To understand how AR wearables affect the way a typical person perceives the world, we considered various natural impairments to vision.…A poorly designed AR interface could interfere with vision to the same degree as these diseases.” Read more