Category Archives: Cool Stuff

Nice Summary of Emergent Values

By Raelifin | Published: September 24, 2010

Stephen Omohundro: The Basic AI Drives via Michael Anissimov on Accelerating Future Other good stuff can be found at http://selfawaresystems.com/.

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Comic Interlude

By Raelifin | Published: September 18, 2010

Zach Weiner did a comic expressing my take on the Fermi Paradox. I think his depiction beats mine as far as quality is concerned. ^_^

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Cool Stuff for March Ⅱ

By Raelifin | Published: March 22, 2010

To get this I looked up the number of fans for a given figure on facebook and divided by the number of fans of “I bet this <Pickle/Animal/Doorknob> can get more fans than <Figure>”. In the case of multiple pages, I picked the one with the highest fan count. If it’s not immediately clear, higher [...]

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Cool Stuff for March

By Raelifin | Published: March 10, 2010

Normally I share this sort of stuff on reader/buzz, but these amazing items from Ze Frank slipped through:

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Beyond Anthropomorphism Quote

By Raelifin | Published: February 19, 2010

The more I study nature and biology, the more I see that anthropomorphism gets in the way of understanding animals as well. Certain birds, cats, dogs, and even rodents are intelligent, but thinking of their intelligence merely as inferior to humans is not the whole story. Different forms of intelligence have to be understood on [...]

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